FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From: Dan Harris [mailto:coronadh AT coronasolutions.com]
> Sent: July 2, 2002 12:25 PM
> 
> No, it's a datetime type. When I select it, it returns a format of 
> 
> Jun  1 2002 12:01AM
> 
> I would rather have:
> 
> 2002-06-01 00:01:34

Dan, 

Ah, you mean http://www.freetds.org/faq.html#dateformat.  I should include
an example.  

You can coerce the date format with something like this:

1> select convert( varchar(30), getdate(), 120 ) as Now
2> go
 Now
 ------------------------------
 2002-07-02 12:36:31

Or of course you can follow Eric's suggestion in locales.conf.

Regards, 

--jkl