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Modified re changes made in USettings unit in previous revision.

Added new methods to read and write settings values by type to ISettingsSection and implementation. Supported types are - Boolean, Integer, Float, Date-Time and String. The idea is that the burden of value type conversion is moved from client code into Settings object. Boolean values are now written as 'True' and 'False'.
Removed old ItemValues[] array property - now replaced by new methods above.
Removed several unused methods and properties from ISettingsSection and its implementation.

Noted data types used in ini files.

Renamed UUtils unit's DateStamp routine as RFC1123DateStamp.
Modified calling code accordingly.

Removed TUpdateCheckerConfig.NowAsGMT method and replaced calls with NowGMT from UUtils unit.

New NowGMT function that returns current date & time as TDateTime is GTM/UTC.
Reimplemented DateStamp in terms of NowGMT and made it inline.

Standardised all floating point data type as "Float".

Noted details of new UpdateChecks section of per-user config file.

Changed so that update checks are not perform more than once in a day. Added new TUpdateCheckerConfig class to maintain records of last update date for program and database updates.

Added new "UpdateChecks" section to config file.