Re: datestyle problems?

It was called out in the release notes for 7.0*

I got burned too...

Larry
* Geoff Russell <geoff@austrics.com.au> [000906 22:07]:
> Hi,
>
> Have I missed something, or has some date behaviour
> changed in going from 6.5.2 to 7.0.2?
>
> drop table tdate;
> create table tdate ( demo date );
> set DateStyle to 'European';
> insert into tdate (demo) values ('31-12-1999');
> set DateStyle to 'US'; select demo as US from tdate;
> set DateStyle to 'European'; select demo as European from tdate;
> set DateStyle to 'SQL'; select demo as SQL from tdate;
> set DateStyle to 'ISO'; select demo as ISO from tdate;
> set DateStyle to 'German'; select demo as German from tdate;
>
> Gives (with irrelevant lines deleted):
> >        us
> >   ------------
> >    1999-12-31
> Wrong? should be month day year;
> >
> >     european
> >   ------------
> >    1999-12-31
> Wrong? should be day month year;
> >
> >       sql
> >   ------------
> >    31/12/1999
> Wrong? should be month day year;
> >
> >       iso
> >   ------------
> >    1999-12-31
> Right.
> >
> >      german
> >   ------------
> >    31.12.1999
> Right.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff Russell
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