| From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | 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: | 2003-06-19 16:35:35 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0306191034570.7420-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan(at)nsd(dot)ca> writes:
> > Shouldn't dates be validated using the *LOCALE setting and not try to
> > guess?
>
> It would make sense to offer a "strict" mode in which the date order
> has to be what DateStyle suggests. I'm astonished that no one seems
> to get the point that there are also good uses for "lax" parsing.
Which are? Honestly, I see no good use for the lax parsing.
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