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On Mar 07, 2014 @ 03:29 pm, helebor@... wrote:
At 11:04 PM 9/11/2011, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
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On Mar 07, 2014 @ 03:29 pm, mark@... wrote:
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On Mar 07, 2014 @ 03:29 pm, tomconlon7@... wrote:
--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Mark Rotteveel <mark@...> wrote:
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> On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 10:35:18 +0100, Kjell Rilbe <kjell.rilbe@...>
> wrote:
> > Den 2011-11-09 10:31 skrev canacourse såhär:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Kjell,
> >>
> >> Doesn’t using the dot separator imply that non us date formats are
> >> being used? i.e. 07/11/2011 is interpreted as MM/DD/YYYY while
> >> 07.11.2011 is interpreted as DD/MM/YYYY?
> >>
> > Sorry, I don't know. I just wanted to point out that there are different
>
> > ways to interpret a date string and that you should make sure that your
> > date string is actually interpreted the way you intend. How you choose
> > to do this is up to you: try it out in your DB (recommended), read docs,
>
> > ask here, ...
> >
> > You could for example try this:
> >
> > select cast ('6.11.2011 08:35:26' as timestamp) from rdb$database
> > select cast ('6.30.2011 08:35:26' as timestamp) from rdb$database
> > select cast ('30.6.2011 08:35:26' as timestamp) from rdb$database
>
> Better just use timestamp '2011-06-30 08:35:26' or cast('2011-06-30
> 08:35:26' as timestamp), which should always work independent of the locale
> of the server.
>
> Mark
>

Also, '30-Jun-2011 08:35:26' is explicit and unambiguous.

Tom

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