Re: variables: open issue a) date variables

I'll try to summarise in a new thread, so just a simple answer here.

[Marc Mutz]:
>   > an ISO 8601 date comparator is not needed, since a normal string
>   > compare is enough.
>
>   Please explain why "a normal string compare" is enough to determine 
>   which of the two dates
>     Sat, 10 May 2003 21:18:44 +0200
>     Sat, 10 May 2003 20:18:44 +0000
>   is earlier.
those aren't on ISO 8601 format.  still, I forgot about time zones,
you'd need to normalise those before doing the string compare.

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Kjetil T.