Re: A creepy story about dates. How to prevent it?

On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 18:09, Paul Thomas wrote:
> On 18/06/2003 22:09 scott.marlowe wrote:
> > [snip]
> > Why bother checking for wrong dates sometimes (i.e. 03/33/2003) but not
> > all the time (i.e. 13/03/2003)?
> 
> ISTR that DB2 used to do the same (maybe still does - haven't used it for 
> a few years). Still, IMHO, it is frustrating. I would rather have the db 
> be ultra-strict, forcing me to handle dates correctly and rigorously in my 
> app.
> 
> > [snip]
> > I do plenty of format checking, this isn't the same.  This is range
> > checking.  I expect my database to do that for me.
> 
> Agreed, although if the user gets his data thrown back at him by the db 
> then I feel that this is a bug in my program. YMMV.

I hate to say, "Me too!", but I do agree with Paul and Scott.

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