On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 10:35:18 +0100, Kjell Rilbe <kjell.ri...@datadia.se> wrote: > Den 2011-11-09 10:31 skrev canacourse såhär: >> >> >> >> Kjell, >> >> Doesn’t using the dot separator imply that non us date formats are >> being used? i.e. 07/11/2011 is interpreted as MM/DD/YYYY while >> 07.11.2011 is interpreted as DD/MM/YYYY? >> > Sorry, I don't know. I just wanted to point out that there are different
> ways to interpret a date string and that you should make sure that your > date string is actually interpreted the way you intend. How you choose > to do this is up to you: try it out in your DB (recommended), read docs, > ask here, ... > > You could for example try this: > > select cast ('6.11.2011 08:35:26' as timestamp) from rdb$database > select cast ('6.30.2011 08:35:26' as timestamp) from rdb$database > select cast ('30.6.2011 08:35:26' as timestamp) from rdb$database Better just use timestamp '2011-06-30 08:35:26' or cast('2011-06-30 08:35:26' as timestamp), which should always work independent of the locale of the server. Mark