Re: [INTERFACES] Re: ODBC driver

As a user, I use dd-mm-yyyy in HK. Was I an minority?

Stephen Davies wrote:

> > Stephen Davies <scldad@sdc.com.au> writes:
> >
> > > I do not know what the internal representation is but they are
> > > displayed by psql as either dd-mm-yyyy or mm-dd-yyyy depending on
> > > whether the server has -o -e or not. As in most parts of the world,
> > > Australia uses dd-mm-yyyy as a standard.
> >
> > Well, no.  I have no idea which is more common of the two you mention,
> > but the majority of the people of this world actually use the ISO 8601
> > standard representation: yyyy-mm-dd.
> >
> OK. Point taken.
>
> However, the point that I was trying to make is that, to my knowledge,  nobody
> outside the US uses mm/dd.
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen.
>
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