Thread: Re: [INTERFACES] Access'97 and ODBC

Re: [INTERFACES] Access'97 and ODBC

From
"Thomas G. Lockhart"
Date:
>    "For Postgres v6.3 (and earlier) the default date/time style is
>    "traditional Postgres". In future releases, the default may become
>    ISO-8601, which alleviates date specification ambiguities and Y2K
>    collation problems."
>
> I vote for changing default date format to ISO-8601 to reflect
> PostgreSQL documentation and for adherence to Standard SQL92.

I was thinking that if the default format changes it should change at a
major rev (i.e. v7.0) since one might expect interfaces to need updates
at a major rev anyway.

But let me turn around the question, in case no one is bothered by this:

Does anyone think that the default date format _shouldn't_ change to
ISO-8601 for the next release?

(I expect to hear that it shouldn't change, but figured I should confirm
it...).

                      - Tom