>Interbase already supports YYYY-MM-DD ...
>
>Don't ask me what would happen if it's supported in comparations...
>developer's code bugs (an integer in the wrong place) could be translated
>into dates silently, for example. Obviously, the same danger is in an
>insertion.
>
>C.

Probably no worse than assigning '2000-07-13' to an integer. In other words,
semantics is the responsibility of the designer. Garbage in Garbage out.

Joseph Alba
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