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My initial question was about oddly-formatted date/times. The suggested
solution of casting directly to timestamp with ::timestamp is not as
flexible as the to_timestamp function that I was trying to avoid. For
example, this fails because of the day-before-month format:
SELECT
...I meant to add, "and we therefore try to store all time and date values in
'timestamp without time zone' variables.
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Thanks very much for both of your replies. I had tried something similar and
gotten an error, so I am probably making a stupid mistake. If I try this,
it works:
SELECT ('09.03.2014'||' '||lpad('3:00:00',8,'0'),'DD.MM.
HH24:MI:SS')::timestamp
but if I use column names instead of the
Oh sorry, what a dumb mistake! ::timestamp works, of course!
Thanks
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Hi. I have a practical need to convert some badly-formatted date/times into
'timestamp without time zone' data types. Like other scientists, I try to
avoid timezone problems by sticking to UTC and using the 'timestamp without
time zone' data type whenever possible.
In this case, I used the
