to_date conversion semantics?

Colin 't Hart <colinthart@gmail.com>

From: "Colin 't Hart" <colinthart@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-09-20T14:20:29Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Hi,

I can't find in the Postgresql documentation the semantics that explains the
following:


colin@ruby:~/workspace/eyedb$ psql
psql (8.4.4)
Type "help" for help.

colin=> select to_date('731332', 'YYMMDD');
  to_date
------------
 1974-02-01
(1 row)

colin=>


Thanks,

Colin