Re: Basic Date question

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:24:28 +0530, "Cyril Gupta" <nomail@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>This sounds to me a question of preference. Leaving it uninitialized is
>quite a good option. Since you know what the date is going to be you can
>always make sure it's uninitialized.
>
>You might also considering storing date in the numerical date format. This
>way
>
>20060110... The first four characters are year, then month, then day. It's a
>perfectly logical way of storing a date and I use it quite often in my own
>applications.
>
>Cheers!
>Cyril
>
I thought about that but we're going to use Crystal Reports and SQL
Reporting Services and those aren't going to like that format.

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