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From Joel Fradkin
Subject dates and selection
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After my conversion to Unicode and implementing new drivers (Thank god still up no down time J) I do have an issue with some of my sql selects concerning dates.

 

I know the long answer, but am asking if there is a short one.

 

I have in some of my slq :

(to_char(e.incidentdate, 'Mon DD YYYY'::text) || ' '::text) || e.incidenttime::text  as incidentdate

 

I used to be able to sort and select by incident date and it was working ok (I think).

 

Now I found I had to do something like this just to have a timestamp (problem is I do not want the format of the time stamp, my clients want to see the month as a string)

((to_char(e.incidentdate, 'Mon DD YYYY'::text) || ' '::text) || e.incidenttime::text)::timestamp  as datetoselectby

 

Is there any way to reference the text type variable as a date selection? (was this ever working or was I hallucinating).

 

Many thanks for all the help.

 

Joel Fradkin

 

 

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