Kishore gave some food for thought re date intrinsics, and
asked.........
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> *  Is an  intrinsic  routine,  HPDATECOMPARE,  to  compare  two dates
>    required?  Such an  intrinsic  compares  two  dates  in one of the
>    standard   formats   described   above.  It  would  report   their
>    relationship (less than, equal, or greater).
>

Such an intrinsic/subroutine, I'm sure, has been written hundreds of
times in a variety of 3k languages.

I have always needed (and re-invented) a routine that accepts two dates
and returns the number of days, months and years difference between
them.
I would say the proposed HPDATECOMPARE should accept two dates (in a
some standard format) and return the number of whole days, whole months,
whole years, and whole centuries difference in separate fields. While
we're at it, do the same for time. :)

Nice proposal, Kishore, and thanks for letting us give input.

Neil

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