Re: A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it?

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Tom Lane writes:
>
> > Other than me, I think you mean. dd/mm/yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy are
> > inherently ambiguous in the real world, and when you can clearly
> > determine what the intended meaning is, I think it's more reasonable
> > to assume the datestyle isn't set correctly than to reject the data.
>
> That might even make the slightest sense if the supposedly wrong datestyle
> would then stay switched. But the automatic switching only happens for a
> certain subsets of inputs and only in that instance. So if a user did
> really mean the opposite setting he will not be happy, and if the user did
> not mean the opposite setting he will not be happy either. So no one is
> happy.

I think we have had enough discussion to remove the question mark from
this TODO item:

* Allow current datestyle to restrict dates; prevent month/day swapping
from making invalid dates valid

Of course, if later discussion changes, I will re-add it.

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