Trouble Converting Dates

Hi

I am running postgres 7.02 on Linux and I am having trouble converting a

character string to a date using the "to_date" function.

For example:

select to_char( to_date( '001112', 'YYMMDD'), 'YYYYMMDD');
to_char
----------
00001112

In other words it is defaulting to the year 0 (actually year 1 BC, since

there is no year 0) instead of 2000.

Now I run the equivalent select statement on Oracle, and I get:

select to_char( to_date( '001112', 'YYMMDD'), 'YYYYMMDD') from dual;

TO_CHAR(TO_DATE('001112','YYMMDD'),'YYYYMMDD')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

20001112

Which is what I expect.

Is "YY" suppose to default to the current century or is this an
Oracle'ism?

I looked in my Postgres documents for a table describing the Date
conversion strings, and could not find one. Is there a reference some
one can direct me to?

BTW, on postgres, when I try:

select to_char( to_date( '20001112', 'YYYYMMDD'), 'YYYYMMDD');

I get the error: "ERROR: Unable to convert timestamp to date"

Thanks,
Kate

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