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'Just give me any old date and I'll make it work' ... said the VB script to the coder

Peter 69

Thanks to VB...

...since 1995 I've never had any date / time issues. This is due to VB and an Anglo-Merkin working environment. These taught me to enforce a %Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S format, which sorts sensibly, however the OS / shell / app may choose to interpret it. Merkins are adaptive and learn.

I also always encourage the internal use of signed 32 bit integers with a 1970 epoch. This gives me a retirement plan.

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