Originally Posted by
ILS37R
The notable thing which does not are the specific cross-countries required for each certificate (e.g. even if your IR cross-country was long enough, you couldn't use it towards your Comm cross-country).
I would check with your local FSDO, because the Seattle FSDO says that they do. (e.g. if you had a 2 hour day VFR x-country and it was more than 100nm straight-line during private training, you can count it).