Re: Unusual date storage requirement

2003-10-27 Thread bluejack
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 19:11:53 -0600, Paul DuBois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For future reference, does this effect order by clauses in the way one would expect? (ie., 00 precedes 01). The docs make it seem as though use of invalid dates results in undefined behavior. Can you indicate which part of

Re: Unusual date storage requirement

2003-10-27 Thread Paul DuBois
At 4:41 PM -0800 10/27/03, bluejack wrote: On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:34:34 -0600, Paul DuBois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 5:32 PM -0500 10/27/03, sean peters wrote: Hi all, I have run into a date storage problem that i don't like. A am storing historic house sales, and some of the old data i have r

Re: Unusual date storage requirement

2003-10-27 Thread bluejack
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:34:34 -0600, Paul DuBois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 5:32 PM -0500 10/27/03, sean peters wrote: Hi all, I have run into a date storage problem that i don't like. A am storing historic house sales, and some of the old data i have received only contains the month and year, b

Re: Unusual date storage requirement

2003-10-27 Thread Paul DuBois
At 5:32 PM -0500 10/27/03, sean peters wrote: Hi all, I have run into a date storage problem that i don't like. A am storing historic house sales, and some of the old data i have received only contains the month and year, but not the date of the sale. Of course we want to store this information, bu

Re: Unusual date storage requirement

2003-10-27 Thread bluejack
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:58:38 -0500, sean peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, thats actually what i am going to do. A date column won't take anything but a valid date (sort of - feb. 30 is "valid"). But i still need to know whether the day of month is meaningful or not, for various search / dis

Re: Unusual date storage requirement

2003-10-27 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 05:32:34PM -0500, sean peters wrote: > Hi all, > I have run into a date storage problem that i don't like. A am storing > historic house sales, and some of the old data i have received only contains > the month and year, but not the date of the sale. Of course we want to

Re: Unusual date storage requirement

2003-10-27 Thread sean peters
Sorry, i wasn't completely clear. Well, thats actually what i am going to do. A date column won't take anything but a valid date (sort of - feb. 30 is "valid"). But i still need to know whether the day of month is meaningful or not, for various search / display purposes. My users will raise a m

RE: Unusual date storage requirement

2003-10-27 Thread John Jolet
what about forcing the date to the first of whatever month the sale was in? if it's got a valid date, put that, otherwise, put the first. -Original Message- From: sean peters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Unusual date stor