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Old 01-11-2011, 07:07 AM  
Angry Jew Cat - Banned for Life
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Originally Posted by Traxman View Post
Agree, DATE storage is 3 bytes, TIME is 3 aswell, and DATETIME is 8 and an INT is 4 bytes so using one more byte for knowing the exact second is best of all, and doing some extra programming for converting the seconds to whatever you want is worth it.

Down the line, i mean ;)
Time serves no purpose to me, only the date. So as far as I can figure, DATE is the data type which suits my needs the best for this application.
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