Re: date format

On Sunday 04 March 2007 15:28, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> On 04/03/2007 12:58, Jorge Godoy wrote:
> > Garry Saddington <garry@schoolteachers.co.uk> writes:
> >> I have 'datestyle ISO,DMY' set in postgresql.conf but the date output is
> >> still rendered in the format (y,m,d) . How can I change this behaviour?
> >
> > ISO means y-m-d...
>
> The default postgresql.conf that is installed has
>
>        datestyle = iso,mdy
>
> though commented out - on a new installation I uncomment this line as a
> matter of course and change it to "iso,dmy" and it works fine.
>
> Are you sure that PostgreSQL is presenting the dates in the wrong
> format? Could there be another layer that's swapping the month and year
> around? - try SELECTing some date values from psql and see what you get.
>
I tried pgAdmin3 on windows to run 'select now()'  and it still does not
return the correct datestyle.
Regards
Garry