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Both the usages are correct. Only the underlying intention is different.
Please read along for more information:
*Start Date, Start Time, End Date, and End Time*
In this case , you are granting individual imporatance to each of the
entities involved. That means, you are dealing with Start Date, Start Time,
End Date and End Time individually. As an illustration:
Madhavan, Richa, Ajith and Simran went to a movie. Here, in this usage,
there is no indication as to what relation exists between any two members in
the four. There is no possibility that you can pair them up. So the *and* in
this case is used only as a *connector* and nothing beyond.
*Start Date and Start Time and End Date and End Time*
In this case, the *and*s can be interpreted in two ways:
1. Repeated usage of *and*s, can be deleted and made the same as in the
above case.
2. It can also be interpreted as follows: Please see the paranthesis
notation of the same example as above:
( (Madhavan, Richa) and (Ajith, Simran) ). If we have to write a detailed
sentence and expand this in verbal form, then it can be elaborated in the
way that - Madhavan and Richa along with Ajith and Simran went to a movie.
The *along with* can be replaced with *and* for simplicity.
I hope this clarifies your doubt.
Regards,
GSN Raju
<Madhavan Wrote : Could you let me know which of the following is
correct in terms of "and" usage?
Start Date, Start Time, End Date, and End Time
or
Start Date and Start Time and End Date and End Time >
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