From: "Oscar Serrano" <oserra@fondos.net>
To: "Cedar Cox" <cedarc@visionforisrael.com>
Cc: <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: RE: non-us datestyle
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 17:18:50 +0200
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> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: Cedar Cox [mailto:cedarc@visionforisrael.com]
> Enviado el: miercoles, 04 de julio de 2001 16:48
> Para: Oscar Serrano
> CC: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
> Asunto: RE: [INTERFACES] non-us datestyle
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Oscar Serrano wrote:
> > 
> > > -----Mensaje original-----
> > > De: pgsql-interfaces-owner@postgresql.org
> > > [mailto:pgsql-interfaces-owner@postgresql.org]En nombre de Cedar Cox
> > > Enviado el: miercoles, 04 de julio de 2001 14:53
> > > Para: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
> > > Asunto: [INTERFACES] non-us datestyle
> > >
> > > Is there a way to set the default date style to non-US (European)?  I
> > > didn't see any compile or run time options, just per 
> connection options.
> > > (pg v1.7)
> > >
> > > -Cedar
> > 
> > Well I'm not sure if you are asking for this but...
> > If you define the shell variable PGDATESTYLE to, for example, 
> SQL, all date
> > are returned like this:
> > dd/mm/yyyy
> > There are serveral values you can assign to PGDATESTYLE.
> > You can execute, prior to a query this sentence:
> > SET DATESTYLE TO SQL
> 
> I'll be using ODBC so there's no shell variable to set...  This is why I
> want a global option.

But, have you tried it?
Beacuse I use DBI from a windows machine with ActivePerl and it works.

Oscar Serrano.


> -Cedar
> 
>