| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan(at)nsd(dot)ca>, Frank Miles <fpm(at)u(dot)washington(dot)edu>, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>, Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it? |
| Date: | 2003-06-22 05:05:41 |
| Message-ID: | 200306220505.h5M55f429894@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Reading the subject, "creepy ... dates", that is exactly how I feel
> about the described current date behavior --- "creepy".
>
> Because I have only seen one person defend our current behavior, and
> many object, I am going to add to TODO:
>
> * Allow current datestyle to restrict dates; prevent month/day swapping
> from making invalid dates valid?
> * Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid
I added a question mark to the first item so we can consider it later.
Most agreed on the second item, but a few thought the first one might be
OK as is.
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