From: Christopher Luk <wluk@hkcccc.org>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: ODBC driver
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 09:46:40 +0800
Message-ID: <35380600.A53F3AE0@hkcccc.org> (raw)
References: <199804180110.KAA11003@mustang.sdc.com.au>
As a user, I use dd-mm-yyyy in HK. Was I an minority?
Stephen Davies wrote:
> > 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.
>
> ========================================================================
> Stephen Davies Consulting scldad@sdc.com.au
> Adelaide, South Australia. Voice: 61-8-82728863
> Computing & Network solutions. Fax: 61-8-82741015
--
Regards, Christopher Luk
System Analyst - The Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China
Phone : (852) 2397-1022 Fax : (852) 2397-7405
mailto:wluk@hkcccc.org URL : http://www.hkcccc.org (Chinese based)
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Reply to all the recipients using the --to and --cc options:
reply via email
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Cc: wluk@hkcccc.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: ODBC driver
In-Reply-To: <35380600.A53F3AE0@hkcccc.org>
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
This inbox is served by DDX for PostgreSQL; see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox