Re: outputting dates

From: Christoph Haller <ch(at)rodos(dot)fzk(dot)de>
To: Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon(at)thenilgiris(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL SQL <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: outputting dates
Date: 2005-03-15 14:06:18
Message-ID: 4236EBDA.5012F012@rodos.fzk.de
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Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
>
> hi,
> i have set my datetype to 'European, SQL'. This correctly accepts
> dates of the form dd/mm/yyyy. However, the output is still in the
> 'yyyy-mm-dd' format. How do i get the default output as dd/mm/yyyy?
> --
> regards
> kg
>

I have
select version();

version
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 7.4.5 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.3.1
(SuSE Linux)

I did
set datestyle to 'European, SQL';
SET
select date_trunc( 'day' , now() );
date_trunc
-------------------------
15/03/2005 00:00:00 CET

How did you set your datetype?

Regards, Christoph

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