>Oh, yes. In fact it is "tStart" in my reservation system. There are other fields which are pure date fields.

Hehe, I meant why have a tStart and a dStart if the tStart contains the date, but it was off the point any way!

>I believe that free tables cannot have fields with names longer than 10 chars also, so I just try to avoid that issue entirely.

You mean because free tables only have 10 character fields, you limit your DB field lengths to 10? Me too :-)