Re: Date formats

See the following

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date#Day_and_year_only



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Does any culture use the Julian format natively (outside of the 'geek
culture', that is)?

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Raul A. Jager W. <raul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In Paraguay, as in most of the civilized world, we use ddmmyyyy
separarted either by /, -, or .
Is is not practical for sorting, but using "date" fields the order comes
out Ok.

But, as any other rule, there are exceptions, and now I have a task for
which I need to sort using mmddyyyy, to list aniversarys. For each
month: the list of days, and for each day the list ordered by year.

Bryce Martin wrote:

Date sorting is most 'natural' when done yyyymmdd. That is why people
always want to switch the order of the parts. This is actually quite

mute

in anything that is done with native date values, but most databases on
the i are not set up this way. From what I've seem most date records

are

stored as numeric, and I'm guessing 8,0 numeric at that. If everything
was stored as Date then there would be little use for all this switching
around since I'm not aware of too many people who display dates as
2009/12/16, or 2009, Dec 16.


I wonder... if native date support had been in place since the

beginning,

would we have ever seen the 10000.01 trick? I'm only coming up on my

3rd

anniversary on the platform, so this might be a naive point of view.


Thanks
Bryce Martin
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