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To: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih+mail@Hamartun.Priv.NO>,
	pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: ODBC driver 
In-reply-to: Your message of "17 Apr 1998 20:38:02 +0200."
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Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 10:40:30 +0930
From: Stephen Davies <scldad@sdc.com.au>

> 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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