FreeTDS Development Group

["Castellano, Nicholas" <Nicholas_Castellano AT acml.com>]

> From: James McGowan [mailto:jmcgowan AT luxurylink.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 4:22 PM
> To: FreeTDS Development Group (E-mail)
> Subject: [freetds] Date string differences between FreeTDS 
> and Sybase ASE
> 
> 
> I've held off deploying FreeTDS due to a problem with date 
> strings. A raw date queried from SQL Server stored in 
> datetime format looks like this on a system using Sybase ASE 11.0:
> 
>       Dec 18 2003  4:30:00:000PM
> 
> Using FreeTDS (the problem exists with the stable release as 
> well as for nightly snapshots), the same record looks like this:
> 
>       Dec 18 2003  4:30PM

Have a look at the documentation for "date format" in locales.conf.  For
example:

[default]
        date format = %b %d %Y %I:%M:%S.%z%p

[en_US]
        date format = %b %d %Y %I:%M:%S.%z%p
        language = us_english
        char set = iso_1

I dunno why that isn't the default for FreeTDS.

Also I vaguely recall some talk about locales.conf going away, so there may
be a better place for this these days...

--nick
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