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This page explains why we encode date and time in separate fields for some values. 

== Reasons ==
* our legacy PDA data collection tool implemented date and time as two separate fields
* there are more convenient user interface elements in MS Access to enter the two separately
* they can easily be combined during analysis

== values affected ==
* [[L_Log]].[[Start Date field]] / [[Start Date field]] / [[Start Date and Time]]
* [[L TmpV2]].obsdate and obstime 	
* [[L TmpV2]].date_var and time_var
* original [[Admit date and time]]

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