Re: DBDATE (was: Informix 4.1 inquiry)

Richard Spitz wrote: > > Jonathan Leffler wrote: > > > What date is 10-11-1998? I always use 10 Nov 1998. > > > > That depends on the setting of DBDATE, of course. As far as I'm > > concerened, it means 10th November 1998 when I type it, and 11th > > October when my American colleagues type it. I'm bilingual in English > > and American. I do all my database access with DBDATE=DMY4/. > ^ > Is that "period", or does > the "." belong to "DBDATE"? The period belongs to the sentence and not to the value of DBDATE. > In the age of GLS, why is DBDATE still necessary? When I upgraded to > 7.20 frontends and IDS 7.30, I assumed that the GLS settings would > take care of the date formats. However, I was wrong, and I still have > to set DBDATE=DMY4. to get the correct German format for dates, even > though I have set CLIENT_LOCALE=de_de.8859-1 I was under the same impression. -- Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com, jleffler@earthlink.net) Guardian of DBD::Informix v0.60 -- see http://www.perl.com/CPAN #include <disclaimer.h>