From: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: Pedro B. <pedro.borracha@netcabo.pt>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Datetime
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:23:14 +0300 (EEST)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0408031319490.7249-100000@matrix.gatewaynet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <410F3D4B.60405@netcabo.pt>
O kyrios Pedro B. egrapse stis Aug 3, 2004 :
> Hello,
>
> I'm using a TIMESTAMP column with a now() default which (correctly i
> assume) uses a 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss' format.
Wrong!, timestamp does not use any human readable format to be stored.
Its not like MS* tools where dates/times are actually text.
now() returns the current UNIX (your running UNIX right?) timestamp which
in turn is
measured in seconds,miliseconds since the epoch.
i.e. 1970-01-01 00:00:00
>
> Is it possible to make it something like 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss:cc' ?
> (basically, a DATE and a TIME, but with 2 decimal cases on the :cc and
> not .ccccc as the TIME format.
>
> Thanks,
> \\pb
>
>
>
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-Achilleus
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