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

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan@nsd.ca>, Frank Miles <fpm@u.washington.edu>, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-06-22T05:05:41Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> Reading the subject, "creepy ... dates", that is exactly how I feel
> about the described current date behavior --- "creepy".
> 
> Because I have only seen one person defend our current behavior, and
> many object, I am going to add to TODO:
> 
> 	* Allow current datestyle to restrict dates;  prevent month/day swapping
>           from making invalid dates valid?
> 	* Prevent month/day swapping of ISO dates to make invalid dates valid

I added a question mark to the first item so we can consider it later. 
Most agreed on the second item, but a few thought the first one might be
OK as is.

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