Re: [INTERFACES] Re: ResultSet.getDate

On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:

> > Not sure. The first thing I'm thinking of, is removing the datestyle
> > support, and having the driver set a datestyle to one (probably ISO)
> > during the connect. AFAIK, the ODBC driver uses a similar scheme?
>
> Yes, sorry, I'd forgotten that you don't already do this. The ODBC
> driver does force the date format to ISO.
>
> > If we still have problems, how about an internal datestyle for use by
> > interfaces only (like JDBC & ODBC)?
>
> Sure, though the ISO style is pretty well defined and parsable, so may
> be the best choice for an ASCII internal format.

This is probably the way I will go.

Peter

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