Re: Website typo

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 11:51 +0200, Markus Bertheau ☭ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> on http://www.glom.org/wiki/index.php?title=Screenshots saying "dates
> and times [...] are always stored in the database in standard ISO
> format" is like saying "ints are stored in hex (or decimal or octal or
> binary) format". The representation of the data is independent from it's
> storage format.

I'm not sure about that. I think it's a postgres option, so some
postgres databases will use non-ISO formats in SQL queries and results,
I think it would be stupid to choose anything other than ISO format, but
I guess some people see it as a shortcut that avoids reformatting.

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