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Message Posted: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 @ 08:39:09 GMT

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What are the advantages/disadvantages of storing time fields as a single integer field, as opposed to storing the hours, minutes and seconds separately?

We use the time for the following:

Summary by hour

Elapsed time (end time - start time)

Min & max times (first & last)

Printing (display on reports)

Comments appreciated - Thanks

Barbara George
Manager, Decision Support, Pick 'n Pay Information Systems
Cape Town, South Africa

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