Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>
> > I have the requirement for ISO dates with European format and would
> > like to change backend/utils/adt/dt.c:EncodeDateTime() and EncodeDateOnly()
> > to effect this if this is a general requirement.
>
> What is "ISO dates with European format"? Is it a combination of ISO
> date output with European-style input (which I think can be done
> already), or something else? afaik ISO-8601 is specific about
> suggested formats, and makes no distinction between European and other
> conventions. Can you give examples? TIA
Sure -
coza=> set datestyle to 'SQL,European'; SET VARIABLE coza=> select registrationdate from accounts where domain =
'flame.co.za';registrationdate --------------------------- 02/06/1997 00:00:00.00 SAST (1 row)
The above result is correct for dd/mm/yyyy styles
coza=> set datestyle to 'ISO,European'; SET VARIABLE coza=> select registrationdate from accounts where domain =
'flame.co.za'; registrationdate ---------------------- 1997-06-02 00:00:00+02 (1 row)
Instead of 02-06-1997 00:00:00+02
If ISO is specific regarding formatting of days, month and year then I feel that
the "set datestyle to 'ISO,European'" should give an error. However, I would
personally
prefer it to format the result as "dd-mm-yyyy".
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Regards
Theo
