>>- People used total unreadable variable names (like ldInvDte).
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>Well, I wouldn't say that was unreadable - I take it immediately to be local date Invoice Date field, but, I agree with you that lazy-arsed var names should result in the shooting at dawn of the programmer. Just the inclusion of one letter, "a" would have made that amply readable.

Not enough. ldInvDate is what - invoice date, inventory date, invention date or inversion date?