Martijn Tonies wrote:

>>I use TIME for hours and minutes and cast to TIME when I want to display
>>a duration as hours and minutes. Days just being multiples of 24 hours (
>>or what ever you want for the Martian clock ;) )
>
> But not a duration > 24 hours, I guess? As you are misusing the type... but
> you know it ;)

Yes a duration > 24 hours. It may be misusing the type, but I keep
getting told - it's just numbers stored internally.
Arithmetic on dates and times works nicely with days and fractions of
days. better than where the times are stored as multiples of seconds :(

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