Clarification of DateStyle - Mailing list pgsql-docs
From | Bruce Momjian |
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Subject | Clarification of DateStyle |
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Msg-id | 200404150447.i3F4l1E13931@candle.pha.pa.us Whole thread Raw |
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Re: Clarification of DateStyle
(Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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List | pgsql-docs |
I have applied the following patch to clarify the meaning of the second DateStyle field. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 Index: runtime.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/runtime.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.258 diff -c -c -r1.258 runtime.sgml *** runtime.sgml 7 Apr 2004 05:05:49 -0000 1.258 --- runtime.sgml 15 Apr 2004 04:45:46 -0000 *************** *** 2433,2449 **** <indexterm><primary>date style</></> <listitem> <para> ! Sets the display format for date and time values, as well as ! the rules for interpreting ambiguous date input values. ! For historical reasons, this variable contains two independent components: the output format specification (<literal>ISO</>, ! <literal>Postgres</>, <literal>SQL</>, or <literal>German</>) and ! the date field order specification (<literal>DMY</>, <literal>MDY</>, ! or <literal>YMD</>). These can be set separately or together. ! The keywords <literal>Euro</> and <literal>European</> are synonyms ! for <literal>DMY</>; the keywords <literal>US</>, <literal>NonEuro</>, ! and <literal>NonEuropean</> are synonyms for <literal>MDY</>. ! See <xref linkend="datatype-datetime"> for more information. The default is <literal>ISO, MDY</>. </para> </listitem> --- 2433,2450 ---- <indexterm><primary>date style</></> <listitem> <para> ! Sets the display format for date and time values, as well as the ! rules for interpreting ambiguous date input values. For ! historical reasons, this variable contains two independent components: the output format specification (<literal>ISO</>, ! <literal>Postgres</>, <literal>SQL</>, or <literal>German</>) ! and the input/output specification for year/month/day ordering ! (<literal>DMY</>, <literal>MDY</>, or <literal>YMD</>). These ! can be set separately or together. The keywords <literal>Euro</> ! and <literal>European</> are synonyms for <literal>DMY</>; the ! keywords <literal>US</>, <literal>NonEuro</>, and ! <literal>NonEuropean</> are synonyms for <literal>MDY</>. See ! <xref linkend="datatype-datetime"> for more information. The default is <literal>ISO, MDY</>. </para> </listitem>
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