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[Donald J. Organ IV]

just use a varchar field, and display that way.and you could always you
strftime();

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Vogel" <davevgl at yahoo.com>
To: <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 1:22 PM
Subject: [nycphp-talk] handling vague dates.


> Hey,
>
> I have a small batch of dates that I'd like to get into a db.  Almost
> all of them are specific, eg October 1.  However, a few refer to things
> that happen around a certain time.  For example students' "Housing bill
> for spring semester due" is listed as 'Early January'.
>
> So, I'm not sure how to set up the db to accomodate the oddballs.  Any
> suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> Dave
>
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