Re: Date help

On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:19:31 Brian C. Doyle wrote:
>What date field would i want to use for "Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:10:28 
>-0500"  that is how I get the data and would like to keep it as close to 
>that as possible???

The "datetime" datatype stores the data as needed. To keep the output close
to what you input, use:

  set DateStyle to 'Postgres';

That outputs dates like this:  Tue Jan 09 06:12:11 2001 EST

Use "\h set" to see the available date styles.

Tony
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