Re: Dates

Perhaps you have a solution??

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Marlowe" <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
To: "Bob Pawley" <rjpawley@shaw.ca>
Cc: "Postgresql" <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Dates


> On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 12:00, Bob Pawley wrote:
>> Hi Folks
>>
>> I have a column for date which defaults to the ambigous 2005-1-1
>> format.
>>
>> The documantation indicates how to change this to the unambigous Jan 1
>> 2005, but the instructions aren't clear to me.
>
> Actually, if the year comes first, it is not ambiguous.  It will always
> be month-day if the year comes first.  It's the
>
> mm/dd/yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy that is the issue.
>
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