There is no direct equivalent. Which way you should go is determined by what you need to do with it. Pass the date along with it from 2008 and store the whole thing as a datetime in my opinion. You can use computed columns to simulate the separate date and time portions.
Seth Phelabaum
Consistency is only a virtue if you're not a screwup. 😉
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