Re: Fixing faulty dates - select on day part of a date field

Hi Chris,

I do now, hence the explicit date check of 2001/11/08 which is when I fixed 
the script.  BTW, it doesn't seem to matter whether I use '/' or '-'.

Gary

On Friday 30 November 2001 1:34 am, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > update calls set date_part('day',xdate) =
> > date_part('month',xdate),
> >        date_part('month',xdate) = date_part('day',xdate)
> >        where date_part('day',xdate) < 13 and xdate < '2001/11/08';
> >
> > (2001/11/08 is when I found/fixed the insert problem)
>
> You should always use the ISO date format - it avoids all these problems,
> and is unambiguous.  It is: YYYY-MM-DD
>
> Chris
>
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