Thread: Java and PGSQL date question

I am trying to pass a date from Java into a PostgreSQL database.  I am using
the DateFormat.parse() funcitonality to format the date.  However, the
database doesn't want to take it?  I looked at the PGSQL documentation and
it says that the default date type is postgresql date type, which is: Wed
Dec 17 07:37:16 1997 PST.  Java is sending the date in this format: Wed Dec
17 07:37:16 PST 1997.  How do I make this work.   Is it easier to change the
Java format or the PGSQL format?

Adam
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Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.

> I am trying to pass a date from Java into a PostgreSQL database.  I am using
> the DateFormat.parse() funcitonality to format the date.  However, the
> database doesn't want to take it?  I looked at the PGSQL documentation and
> it says that the default date type is postgresql date type, which is: Wed
> Dec 17 07:37:16 1997 PST.  Java is sending the date in this format: Wed Dec
> 17 07:37:16 PST 1997.  How do I make this work.   Is it easier to change the
> Java format or the PGSQL format?

postgres=> select 'Wed Dec 17 07:37:16 PST 1997'::datetime;
?column?                    
----------------------------
Wed Dec 17 15:37:16 1997 UTC
(1 row)

Looks good to me. Does this work from psql on your db? If so, then the
problem lies elsewhere...
                      - Tom

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Thomas Lockhart                lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
South Pasadena, California