why doesn't month take an int ?

In the Date structure, every field except for month takes an int.

Why is that ?  And since it takes the Month datatype, why not provide  
a function which maps from int to datatype month.

Seems inconsistent.

Is there a reason for the particular organization ?

Thanks

Brian



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