From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
To: Thomas Good <tomg@sqlclinic.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Ian Barwick <barwick@gmx.net>
Cc: Postgres SQL List <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Date Anomaly??
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 08:52:36 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20030507085145.L26747-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305071047270.29670-100000@q8.nrnet.org>
On Wed, 7 May 2003, Thomas Good wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Thomas Good <tomg@sqlclinic.net> writes:
> > > Another item: if I say 'export PGDATESTYLE=US' and ask psql for
> > > the date I get back an ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD). What region of this
> > > US is this, I wonder? Must be San Francisco (maybe Josh knows ;-)
> >
> > That's only setting a substyle --- one that's not relevant to the ISO
> > major style (at least not on output). See the SET reference page.
>
> Tom,
>
> So the closest approximation to the default "postgres[ql]" date style
> of MM-DD-YYYY (note delimiters) is: SQL,US which returns a
> MM/DD/YYYY 00:00:00 value when doing some date arithmetic?
I think you're getting a timestamp after doing that date arithmetic. Does
casting it back to a date help any?
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