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From: Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih+mail@Hamartun.Priv.NO>
To: Stephen Davies <scldad@sdc.com.au>
Cc: Byron Nikolaidis <byronn@insightdist.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: ODBC driver
Date: 17 Apr 1998 20:38:02 +0200
Message-ID: <86yax4cn05.fsf@barsoom.Hamartun.Priv.NO> (raw)
References: <199804162349.JAA20804@mustang.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.

-tih
-- 
Popularity is the hallmark of mediocrity.  --Niles Crane, "Frasier"



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