Actually if you gonna use the date to make some things you can store
it as a simple integer, or as a date but not with 0 as day and month
but 1 as 0 is no month or day ^^
On 20 feb, 18:12, Philip Hallstrom <phi...@pjkh.com> wrote:
> > CiriusMex wrote:
> >> Ok, so the year will just be stored as information (I mean you'll
> >> just
> >> use it to display the information on a page) no?
> >> If it's like that you store it as a varchar or integer I think. But
> >> if
> >> you will need to process the year in other functions well it should
> >> be
> >> better to store it as a year.
> >> When creating a new line on your database you can use the Date.today
> >> function to get the current date, after the function strftime will
> >> help you to display only the year:
> >> @year = <your_object>.year.strftime("%Y")
>
> >> displaying @year in your html.erb page you'll only see the year from
> >> the date, just as you want to.
>
> >> On 20 feb, 17:32, Scott Holland <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net>
>
> > Thank you for the reply.
>
> > I am going to use the year to calculate other things.
>
> > So will it be ok to leave the the day and the month as '0' in the
> > 'date'
> > format?
>
> > 2008-00-00
>
> I wouldn't. Mysql doesn't seem to care. PostgreSQL does.
>
> philip=# create table foo (d date);
> CREATE TABLE
> philip=# insert into foo values ('2008-00-00');
> ERROR: date/time field value out of range: "2008-00-00"
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