Subj : date format ideas
To   : Phil Taylor
From : Vince Coen
Date : Sun Oct 09 2016 11:54 pm

Hello Phil!

Saturday October 08 2016 21:40, you wrote to KEN BOWLEY:



 KB>> Along with these changes is having MBSE use a time_t rather than
 KB>> a string when  possible so we can get rid of code (only two
 KB>> places that I can think of at the  moment) that manipulates a
 KB>> date string into a
 KB>> YYYYMMDD format before turning  it into an integer for comparison
 KB>> and sorting. Ken

 > All the programming lanuages support a date lib that allows you to
 > compare the dates as mm-dd-year.

Yes, but the best way of comparing is by yyyymmdd and then you can use a 
simple
if date-1 > date-2 then . . . .




Vince

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