Re: this date format thing.

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Peter Haworth wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:23:45 -0700 (MST), scott.marlowe wrote:
> > While situations where 04-02 would get put in when the user meant 02-04,
> > at least enough of the 02-13 cases would throw an error that the user
> > would know they had been doing something wrong along the way and would
> > hopefully go back and look at their data.
>
> You wish.
>
> jnlstats=> select version();
> version
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> PostgreSQL 7.3.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.96
> (1 row)
>
> jnlstats=> set datestyle='ISO';
> SET
> jnlstats=> select '2001-12-31'::date;
> date
> ------------
> 2001-12-31
> (1 row)
>
> jnlstats=> select '2001-31-12'::date;
> date
> ------------
> 2001-12-31
> (1 row)
>
> jnlstats=> select to_date('2001-31-12','yyyy-mm-dd');
> to_date
> ------------
> 2003-07-14
> (1 row)

No, I was saying that if we fixed the parser that would happen. I know
it's horribly broken right now. Who hired Monty to work on our date
parsing routine anyway? :-)