Re: New to Dates - Plain English Please

2004-06-22 Thread Andrew Pattison
partial date and a complete date. Cheers Andrew. - Original Message - From: "Michael Stassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jochem van Dieten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 8:30 PM Subject: Re: New to Dates - Plain

Re: New to Dates - Plain English Please

2004-06-22 Thread Michael Stassen
Jochem van Dieten wrote: Michael Stassen wrote: Jochem van Dieten wrote: David Blomstrom wrote: Suppose you have a list of dates in the proper format, like this: 2004-02-04 2003-11-02 and you encounter a date with only the month and year, like May 2002. How would you insert that Not. Prompt the us

Re: New to Dates - Plain English Please

2004-06-22 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Michael Stassen wrote: Jochem van Dieten wrote: David Blomstrom wrote: Suppose you have a list of dates in the proper format, like this: 2004-02-04 2003-11-02 and you encounter a date with only the month and year, like May 2002. How would you insert that Not. Prompt the user for a full date. That i

RE: New to Dates - Plain English Please

2004-06-22 Thread Paul DuBois
At 9:03 -0700 6/22/04, David Blomstrom wrote: One more question... Suppose you have a list of dates in the proper format, like this: 2004-02-04 2003-11-02 and you encounter a date with only the month and year, like May 2002. How would you insert that, something like this?: 2004-02-04 2003-11-02 200

Re: New to Dates - Plain English Please

2004-06-22 Thread Paul DuBois
At 23:40 -0700 6/21/04, David Blomstrom wrote: I haven't worked with dates yet and wondered if someone could give me an overview in plain English. At the moment, I'm working on a table with a column of dates in this format: March 2, 2003 July 7, 2004 If I understand the Manual, the correct format

Re: New to Dates - Plain English Please

2004-06-22 Thread Michael Stassen
Jochem van Dieten wrote: David Blomstrom wrote: Suppose you have a list of dates in the proper format, like this: 2004-02-04 2003-11-02 and you encounter a date with only the month and year, like May 2002. How would you insert that Not. Prompt the user for a full date. Jochem That is not strictly

Re: New to Dates - Plain English Please

2004-06-22 Thread Jochem van Dieten
David Blomstrom wrote: Suppose you have a list of dates in the proper format, like this: 2004-02-04 2003-11-02 and you encounter a date with only the month and year, like May 2002. How would you insert that Not. Prompt the user for a full date. Jochem -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives

RE: New to Dates - Plain English Please

2004-06-22 Thread David Blomstrom
One more question... Suppose you have a list of dates in the proper format, like this: 2004-02-04 2003-11-02 and you encounter a date with only the month and year, like May 2002. How would you insert that, something like this?: 2004-02-04 2003-11-02 2002-05--- __

RE: New to Dates - Plain English Please

2004-06-22 Thread Peter Lovatt
> Subject: RE: New to Dates - Plain English Please > > > --- Peter Lovatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > There are two aspects to dates, and your questions > > include parts of both. > > > > When MySql stores dates you have a choice

RE: New to Dates - Plain English Please

2004-06-22 Thread David Blomstrom
--- Peter Lovatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > There are two aspects to dates, and your questions > include parts of both. > > When MySql stores dates you have a choice of column > types > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/DATETIME.html > > has the details > > If you just need to store

RE: New to Dates - Plain English Please

2004-06-22 Thread Peter Lovatt
f "2004-02-12" Hope this clarifies it.. Come back to me if not Peter > -Original Message- > From: David Blomstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 June 2004 07:40 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: New to Dates - Plain English Please > > >

New to Dates - Plain English Please

2004-06-21 Thread David Blomstrom
I haven't worked with dates yet and wondered if someone could give me an overview in plain English. At the moment, I'm working on a table with a column of dates in this format: March 2, 2003 July 7, 2004 If I understand the Manual, the correct format for these dates in a MySQL table would be li