Re: 3 digit ISO dates

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On Monday 15 September 2003 09:09, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are we going to address the fact that you can't enter 3 digit years without
> a leading 0?
>
> australia=# select '111-01-01'::date;
> ERROR:  Bad date external representation '111-01-01'
>
> australia=# select '0111-01-01'::date;
>     date
> ------------
>  0111-01-01
> (1 row)
>
> I can't see any reason why we shouldn't allow it???

Works here(7.4beta2):

andreak=# select '111-01-01'::date;   date
- ------------0111-01-01
(1 row)

andreak=# select version();                                                 version
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------PostgreSQL
7.4beta2on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2.2  
(Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)
(1 row)

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Andreas Joseph Krogh <andreak@officenet.no>
Managing Director, Senior Software Developer
OfficeNet AS

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