Re: [INTERFACES] Re: ResultSet.getDate

On 2 Feb 1999, Aleksey Demakov wrote:

> Peter Garner <peter_garner(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
>
> > I am using the JDK 1.1.7v1a from Blackdown. Indeed,
> > Java's handling of dates is a little funky. But in
> > this case the problem is that the returned strings
> > are not being handled properly. Calling getString
> > instead of getDate returns :
> >
> > "Mon Feb 01 16:08:00 1999 UTC"
> >
> > And the format string used in the SimpleDateFormatter
> > object that getDate uses to convert that string is
> > not correct for that format. If there is anything I
> > can do to help, please let me know! :-)
>
> Perhaps opening your connections as follows might help you
>
> ...
> // open connection
> conn = DriverManager.getConnection (url, usr, pwd);
>
> // set datestyle
> Statement st = conn.createStatement ();
> st.executeUpdate ("set datestyle='iso'");
> st.executeUpdate ("show datestyle");
> st.close ();

I'm thinking on doing this within the driver, forcing it to use iso all
the time.

Peter

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