is this just your "hack" or the standard way to do this? I don't need it to be floating point, since I'm not interested in "when" during the day. and, to be clear, "julian" is the calendar we all use, right? it's completely 1:1 with the ansi format 2008-04-05 that I mentioned, right?
Thank you. Dennis Cote-2 wrote: > > sqlfan wrote: >> I'm very new to sqlite but I notice there is no way to mark a column as >> containing dates... What is the standard way to do operations with dates, >> please, and to store dates? Should I try the format 20080405 and do my >> own >> calculations using my language's standard library? (I'm using Python) or >> is >> there a better way to store dates? Thank you for all your help. I'm >> very >> new to all this. >> > See http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=DateAndTimeFunctions for info > on date and time functions. > > I would suggest storing dates as floating point julian day numbers. > > HTH > Dennis Cote > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/What-is-the-standard-way-to-store-dates-and-do-operations-with-dates-please--tp16514369p16518987.html Sent from the SQLite mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
