[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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