Re: [HACKERS] Date/time types: big changeu

> I've been talking about this for quite some time, but there *really*
> is no excuse to not go to the ISO date/time standard. Every other date
> style is prone to misinterpretation, and the ISO standard is commonly
> used in other instances where reliable date reporting is needed.
>
> I've waited until a major rev to do this, and the groundwork has been
> there for a year or two. There are some good summaries of the issues
> on the web.
>
> But, I'd have no objection to a configure or initdb option; I *would*
> suggest that the old default (and it is the default mostly because
> original Postgres95 had no other styles implemented) is a relatively
> poor choice, and that ISO should be the default choice in the absence
> of an explicit configure or initdb switch.

Well, no one is objecting to this yet, so it may be a good choice.

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