[Babase] Re: Putting Foxpro files on the web
Karl O. Pinc
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:07:38 +0000
On 10/06/2005 10:10:40 AM, Hunter Matthews wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 02:24, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> > > the setting if necessary. My dates are in the form 25/05/1999.
> >
> > The DBs are set to
> > european (DMY) date format. (Try: SHOW DATESTYLE;)
>
> I'm open to setting _postgres_ default to ISO, or american style.
>
> Anything else just seems to cause endless confusion.
> I recommend iso.
ISO is not american, it's YYYY-MM-DD, different from everybody.
That's the default output format for babase. But the default
input format is DD/MM/YY because the Amboseli Baboon Research
Project has _always_ used this date style in all it's records.
Karl <kop@meme.com>
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