Hi
I am running postgres 7.02 on Linux and I am having trouble converting a
character string to a date using the "to_date" function.
For example:
select to_char( to_date( '001112', 'YYMMDD'), 'YYYYMMDD');to_char
----------00001112
In other words it is defaulting to the year 0 (actually year 1 BC, since
there is no year 0) instead of 2000.
Now I run the equivalent select statement on Oracle, and I get:
select to_char( to_date( '001112', 'YYMMDD'), 'YYYYMMDD') from dual;
TO_CHAR(TO_DATE('001112','YYMMDD'),'YYYYMMDD')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
20001112
Which is what I expect.
Is "YY" suppose to default to the current century or is this an
Oracle'ism?
I looked in my Postgres documents for a table describing the Date
conversion strings, and could not find one. Is there a reference some
one can direct me to?
BTW, on postgres, when I try:
select to_char( to_date( '20001112', 'YYYYMMDD'), 'YYYYMMDD');
I get the error: "ERROR: Unable to convert timestamp to date"
Thanks,
Kate
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