| From: | Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)cvc(dot)net> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan(at)nsd(dot)ca>, Frank Miles <fpm(at)u(dot)washington(dot)edu>, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it? |
| Date: | 2003-06-23 18:10:19 |
| Message-ID: | 3EF7428B.3010803@cvc.net |
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I think rejecting the data is the best approach. I raises a big flag to the sysadmin or user.
Tom Lane wrote:
> "scott.marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> writes:
>
>>The one thing that should absolutely be turned off is day/month swapping
>>on dates of the form: 2003-02-22.
>
>
> Agreed on that. YYYY-DD-MM isn't used in the real world AFAIK, and it's
> reasonable to treat it as an error.
>
>
>>I've seen little actual defense of the current behaviour,
>
>
> Other than me, I think you mean. dd/mm/yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy are
> inherently ambiguous in the real world, and when you can clearly
> determine what the intended meaning is, I think it's more reasonable
> to assume the datestyle isn't set correctly than to reject the data.
>
> regards, tom lane
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