From: | Gary Stainburn <gary(dot)stainburn(at)ringways(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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To: | "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
Cc: | "pgsql-sql" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Fixing faulty dates - select on day part of a date field |
Date: | 2001-11-30 09:19:28 |
Message-ID: | E169jml-0003hA-00@stan.ringways.co.uk |
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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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