Re: Convert TimeStamp to Date

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 14:28, Claudio Lapidus wrote:
> > template1=# insert into t values ('1993-08-10 17:48:41');
> > INSERT 16980 1
> So we are talking about August 10th, right?
>
> > template1=# select f1, date(f1), f1::date, cast(f1 as date) from t;
> > f1 | date | f1 | f1
> > ---------------------+------------+------------+------------
> > 1993-08-10 17:48:41 | 1993-08-11 | 1993-08-11 | 1993-08-11
> > (1 row)
> Here all casts give Aug. 11th, same as on my 7.3.2 (tested right now). This
> is one day *more* than expected, not 'the previous date' as the original
> poster said. Perhaps some sort of rounding here?

I didn't even notice that. I wonder what version Patrick Welche
is running?

tree=# select date('1993-08-10 17:48:41.074');
date
------------
10-08-1993
(1 row)

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