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Re: Dates and year 2000

From
"Andy Marden"
Date:
Is this a bug?

"Andy Marden" <amarden@usa.net> wrote in message
news:a4u6fh$orp$1@jupiter.hub.org...
> Am loading date fields from text in one table to date in another. Format
of
> the text dates is 'DD.MM.YY', so that's the format mask I use. Dates for
> 2001 work OK - '02.09.01' translates as '2001-09-02', but '02.09.00'
> translates to '0001-09-02 BC'! The y2k.html part of the integrated doc
says
> that 70 - 69 equates 1970 - 2069.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Version 7.1.3 on RH 7.2 BTW
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
>

Re: Dates and year 2000

From
Tom Lane
Date:
"Andy Marden" <amarden@usa.net> writes:
> Is this a bug?

Yes.  It's fixed in 7.2 ...

            regards, tom lane

Re: Dates and year 2000

From
Thomas Lockhart
Date:
> Is this a bug?
> > Am loading date fields from text in one table to date in another.
> > Format of the text dates is 'DD.MM.YY', so that's the format mask
> > I use. Dates for 2001 work OK - '02.09.01' translates as
> > '2001-09-02', but '02.09.00' translates to '0001-09-02 BC'!
> > The y2k.html part of the integrated doc says that 70 - 69 equates
> > 1970 - 2069.
> > Am I missing something?
> > Version 7.1.3 on RH 7.2 BTW

What do you mean by "format mask I use"? Are you trying to enter things
like

  insert into t1 values (date '02.09.01');
  insert into t1 values (date '02.09.00');
  ...

or are you using to_date() which has the notion of templates or "masks"?

lockhart=# select date '02.09.01';
------------
 2001-02-09
lockhart=# select date '02.09.00';
------------
 2000-02-09
lockhart=# select version();
-------------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 7.1.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.96

thomas=# select date '02.09.00';
    date
------------
 2000-02-09
thomas=# select version();
-----------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 7.2 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC 2.96


So, no bug unless you can be more explicit about your test case...

                    - Thomas

Re: Dates and year 2000

From
"Andy Marden"
Date:
Do we have a workaround for 7.1.3? I don't really want to risk
an upgrade at this stage in the system

Cheers

Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Andy Marden" <amarden@usa.net>
Cc: <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 11:21 PM
Subject: Re: [BUGS] Dates and year 2000


> "Andy Marden" <amarden@usa.net> writes:
> > Is this a bug?
>
> Yes.  It's fixed in 7.2 ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>

Re: Dates and year 2000

From
"Andy Marden"
Date:
Just discovered that column::date works fine but to_date(column, 'DD.MM.YY')
causes the problem. I was trying to write portable SQL, but never mind!

Andy

""Andy Marden"" <amarden@usa.net> wrote in message
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> Do we have a workaround for 7.1.3? I don't really want to risk
> an upgrade at this stage in the system
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> To: "Andy Marden" <amarden@usa.net>
> Cc: <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 11:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [BUGS] Dates and year 2000
>
>
> > "Andy Marden" <amarden@usa.net> writes:
> > > Is this a bug?
> >
> > Yes.  It's fixed in 7.2 ...
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
>
>
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Re: Dates and year 2000

From
Thomas Lockhart
Date:
> Just discovered that column::date works fine but to_date(column, 'DD.MM.YY')
> causes the problem. I was trying to write portable SQL, but never mind!

Portable (as in SQL9x) would be

  cast(column as date)

which is also accepted by PostgreSQL...

                 - Thomas