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On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:21:05AM -0500, Chris Fowler wrote:
> What is the best way to store dates in a datebase?  I'm currently
> storing them as the a string of output from the date command.  That
> becomes a problem when I do an order by date and select based on date.
> I would like to store them so I can order them correctly and also do
> a select by date.  To generate reports. I'm using perl to generate all
> reports.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
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