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From Colin 't Hart
Subject Re: to_date conversion semantics?
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In response to Re: to_date conversion semantics?  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>)
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I must be blind, I can see the syntax but I can't see where it explains the wrapping phenomenon that I'm seeing.

Cheers,

Colin


On 20 September 2010 16:36, Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com> wrote:
On Monday 20 September 2010 7:20:29 am Colin 't Hart wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't find in the Postgresql documentation the semantics that explains
> the following:
>
>
> colin@ruby:~/workspace/eyedb$ psql
> psql (8.4.4)
> Type "help" for help.
>
> colin=> select to_date('731332', 'YYMMDD');
>   to_date
> ------------
>  1974-02-01
> (1 row)
>
> colin=>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Colin

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/functions-formatting.html

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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@gmail.com

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