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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] postgres and year 2000
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Msg-id 18004.916240587@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] postgres and year 2000  (Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it>)
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Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@cs.unitn.it> writes:
> It is nice to provide smart date interpretation in the backend but in
> order to be really Y2K compliant we *MUST* forbid any ambiguous date
> format in the backend.

Why?  Has some bureaucrat somewhere defined "Y2K-compliant" as meaning
"thou shalt stop accepting 2-digit years"?  I have not heard of any
such definition and I am entirely prepared to ignore it if it exists...
it has nothing to do with reality.
        regards, tom lane

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