[email protected] [firebird-support] wrote: > Hi, I'm in the progress of converting an existing application from > Sybase SQL (11.0.3 - from the stoneage) to Firebird.From Sybase (as well > as some other databases I work with) I'm used to entering date literals > as 'yyyymmdd'.I keep getting "Overflow occured during data type > conversion".Is it true, that this date format isn't recognized by > firebird?Which is the most common date format, can you recommend any > format?Thanks Lutz May be this : http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-date-literals/ is of help.
From a short skimming: Firebird uses the separator to decide, see the chapter "Separators in Non-U.S. Dates" at the half hth, marcus > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
