Re: A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it?

On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 00:05, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > Reading the subject, "creepy ... dates", that is exactly how I feel
> > about the described current date behavior --- "creepy".
> >
> > Because I have only seen one person defend our current behavior, and
> > many object, I am going to add to TODO:
> >
> >     * Allow current datestyle to restrict dates;  prevent month/day swapping
> >           from making invalid dates valid?
> >     * Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
>
> I added a question mark to the first item so we can consider it later.
> Most agreed on the second item, but a few thought the first one might be
> OK as is.

How about situations where reversing the month and date would
still have "valid but wrong" dates, based upon the LOCALE mask?

I.e., "05/04/2003" is "05-April-2003" or "04-May-2003", depending
on whether the LOCALE implies "DD/MM/YYYY" or "MM/DD/YYYY".

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