From: Stephen Davies <scldad@sdc.com.au>
To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih+mail@Hamartun.Priv.NO>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: ODBC driver
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 10:40:30 +0930
Message-ID: <199804180110.KAA11003@mustang.sdc.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86yax4cn05.fsf@barsoom.Hamartun.Priv.NO>
> Stephen Davies <scldad@sdc.com.au> writes:
>
> > I do not know what the internal representation is but they are
> > displayed by psql as either dd-mm-yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy depending on
> > whether the server has -o -e or not. As in most parts of the world,
> > Australia uses dd-mm-yyyy as a standard.
>
> Well, no. I have no idea which is more common of the two you mention,
> but the majority of the people of this world actually use the ISO 8601
> standard representation: yyyy-mm-dd.
>
OK. Point taken.
However, the point that I was trying to make is that, to my knowledge, nobody
outside the US uses mm/dd.
Cheers,
Stephen.
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