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

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Date/time types: big changeu
Date: 2000-02-17 18:41:07
Message-ID: 20000217194107.A1302@fam-meskes.de
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On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 06:14:23AM +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> 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

Yes, please let's go to this standard. It's an awful lot of work to fix apps
just because they expect US notation and most people in Germany cannot even
think about typing it that way.

> poor choice, and that ISO should be the default choice in the absence
> of an explicit configure or initdb switch.

Completely agree.

Michael
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