RFC2: Date/Time proposal

[Mike or Penny Novack]

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>>I believe several users have expressed that they do not want a time written
>>to their data file if they never actually entered one. That's one of the
>>things I am proposing to support with this proposal. Saving defaulted
>>transaction times would mean that when you read the file back in, you
>>wouldn't know which times were user-entered and which times were defaulted.
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Not EXACTLY.

Or at least it wasn't what I was asking about.

What happens now, what happens given the proposal, if the user does not 
enter a transaction time? WHAT time gets entered? (what value is used 
for the time component and if not a constant value, upon what does it 
depend?)

My question is related to the "stability" of sort operations (a sort is 
"stable" if/f when a set of records is sorted by field X, the relative 
order of records which have the same value in field X is the same after 
the sort as before).

Michael