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Re: Date/Time parsing of ISO 8601 timestamps with commas

David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> — 2025-10-10T20:30:01Z

On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 10:43:04AM +1100, Zane Duffield wrote:
> > I noticed today that PostgreSQL doesn't support parsing ISO 8601
> timestamps
> > that use a comma as the decimal separator.
>
> I found various threads about this in the archives, including this one:
>
>
> https://postgr.es/m/flat/152271186941.1442.12179299369295226185%40wrigleys.postgresql.org
>
>
If there are indeed various threads we might want to update the
documentation to make it clear that we say "almost" because we don't
correctly interpret formats that have substituted a comma for a full-stop.
(And maybe other exceptions.)

Or, I suppose, Appendix B.1 step 1 should include a 5th note (or maybe add
a step 0): "If the token is a comma it is replaced by a space".

David J.