>As a preference... in your field names... do you include the type as part of the description...? even if you are using Hungarian notation...? such as...
>
>tstarttime vs tstart
>dduedate vs ddue

My personal pref is meaningfull names or abreviations never exceeding then 10 chars in lenght.

In this case I would simply call them
'StartTime'
'DueDate'

But Social Security Number wld have been something like;

SocSecNo

When you cross 10 char limit, you are inn for all kind of surprises.