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[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

I think is better to not change the file. Default is either 100 or 109
based on type (small datetime or datetime). All libraries support a way to
get date splitting all fields. Also all libraries (beside ODBC which as a
fixed format) should support date format specification.

Frediano
Il 16/Apr/2015 08:44, <matthew.green AT datamartcomputing.com> ha scritto:

> Hi Geoff,
>
> It is confusing, as you suggest. The part I noted in the link I sent was
> this "dd mmm yyyy hh:nn:ss:sss (24 hour clock, Europe default +
> milliseconds, 4-digit year)". The word default struck me but it does seem
> ambiguous as it says Europe default + milliseconds so the default part
> could be referring to the 24 hour clock or to the format of the whole thing.
>
> Yes, you're right that from isql you don't get to see milliseconds by
> default, the same with the GUI. Having now given it a little more thought I
> suppose the lesson is that you should specify the format you want and not
> rely on defaults :-)
>
> Incidentally MS SQL Server 2012 (probably other versions too) display the
> milliseconds with a full stop by default but you get a colon if you use the
> select I gave in my example.
>
> So, I suppose a full stop by default shouldn't cause any controversy. As
> for locales.conf.. that I don't know.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew.
>
>
> April 16 2015 12:47 AM, "Geoff Montee" <geoff.montee AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Matthew,
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 11:48 PM, <matthew.green AT datamartcomputing.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> The vendor (Sybase) default seems to be with a colon
> >>
> > (
> http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.infocenter.dc38151.1520/html/iqrefbb/
> >> onvert.htm).
> >>
> >> select convert(char(40),getdate(),109);
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------
> >> Apr 14 2015 8:42:03:660AM
> >>
> >> Shouldn't we stick to that?
> >
> > In the page that you linked, I see that the format style you mention
> > is #9 or #109, but I don't see anything to indicate that it is the
> > "default." The default style for the convert function in Sybase ASE
> > 16.0 appears to use style "100", which omits the milliseconds
> > entirely.
> >
> >
> http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.infocenter.dc36271.1600/doc/html/san13
> > 3050437990.html
> >
> > The documentation also says that there should be a dot, not a colon,
> > between the seconds and microseconds by default for the "bigdatetime"
> > type:
> >
> >
> http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.infocenter.dc36271.1600/doc/html/san13
> > 3050393286.html
> >
> >
> http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.infocenter.dc36271.1600/doc/html/san13
> > 3050394051.html
> >
> > Confusingly, it seems to use a colon by default for the "time" type:
> >
> >
> http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.infocenter.dc36271.1600/doc/html/san13
> > 3050395880.html
> >
> > On another note, FreeTDS's documentation page for locales.conf says this:
> >
> > http://www.freetds.org/userguide/locales.htm
> >
> > "locales.conf will probably be dropped from FreeTDS one day. Its only
> > real purpose now is to control the format of date strings. The Right
> > Way™ to deduce the appropriate default date format is from the
> > application's locale settings, while allowing an override in
> > freetds.conf. That's the direction we're headed."
> >
> > Has any thought been given to how date formatting should be handled
> > after locales.conf goes away?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Geoff
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