On 8-12-2015 09:52, Thomas Steinmaurer ts@...
[firebird-support] wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Executing the following in both, dialect 1 and 3:
>
> select cast(current_timestamp as varchar(30))from rdb$database
>
>
> results in a string with a different date/time format. At least on
> Windows with Firebird 2.5 64-bit.
>
> Dialect 1: 7-DEC-2015 20:29:12.3820
> Dialect 3: 2015-12-07 20:31:07.2280
>
> Is this intended?

It is intended, the dialect 3 format conforms to the SQL standard to
always use ISO-8601 format, while dialect 1 preserves backwards
compatibility by using a locale specific conversion.

See also http://ibphoenix.com/resources/documents/design/doc_169

Mark
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Mark Rotteveel