Received: from mail.hkcccc.org (root@[202.64.241.126]) by hub.org (8.8.8/8.7.5) with ESMTP id VAA17221 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 1998 21:47:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hkcccc.org ([202.64.241.101]) by mail.hkcccc.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA11682 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 09:50:15 +0800 Message-ID: <35380600.A53F3AE0@hkcccc.org> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 09:46:40 +0800 From: Christopher Luk Organization: The Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: ODBC driver References: <199804180110.KAA11003@mustang.sdc.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As a user, I use dd-mm-yyyy in HK. Was I an minority? Stephen Davies wrote: > > Stephen Davies 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)