Microsoft Excel VBA has many date and time functions.A few of the important ones being Date(), Day(), Now(), DateAdd(), TimeSerial() and DateSerial(). It also has equal number of data type conversion functions. An important data type conversion function that is frequently used in VBA programming is CDate().
March 8, 1993 -- The FBI played tape recordings of Joe Santoya speaking to his sister, compound member Juliette Santoya Martinez, and to his mother, Ophelia Santoya. Ophelia left the compound on March 21; Juliette remained inside and died on April 19.
(op cit pp. 224-226) Assuming that Koresh had been abusing children before Feb. 28, 1993, a related question is whether the abuse continued during the 51-day siege of the compound. At first Reno explained that a paramount reason for approving the tear-gas assault on April 19 was that babies were being beaten.