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# 8  
Old 12-10-2019
No

You do not do any calculations, operations, math or otherwise in any format other than in unix time.

You should never do any calculations in "date" (string) format or compare strings.

Datetime strings are not for calculations, they are only to make it easy for humans to read.

Not sure why you are seemingly not understanding this basic concept.

You have never worked with unix time before??
# 9  
Old 12-10-2019
no, I didn't Smilie
Last edited by rbatte1; 12-10-2019 at 02:11 PM.. Reason: Edited smiley (or is that a frownie?)
# 10  
Old 12-10-2019
From mobile ...

So it is really simple.

Formatted time strings are for humans.

Unix time is for computers.

Do all your time operations on a computer with time represented as unix time.

If you need to show the results to a human, you can covert unix time to a time string based on the locale of the human.

If you have formatted time strings and you want to do computer operations on them, first convert those formatted time strings to unix time.

It is really very simple.

Hope this helps.
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