> > RTFM!
> and what was the reason for this rudeness? Can't you explain yourself
> without descending into this sort of language?
My apologies for any rudeness, English is not my first language and I'm used
to using this abbreviation to indicate that it can be found in the manual.
> I do read the manual, and it is this reason i posted to the list.
It was not clear after your first post that you actually read the manual.
Only after people explained it to you, it became clear that you didn't ask
because you didn't know about the output of CURDATE(), but rather because
you wanted to discuss the fact that MySQL automatically converts between
numbers and strings (which has very little to do with CURDATE actually).
The fact that you asked about one thing only to discuss another thing did
irritate me a bit. People here are mostly quite willing to help any level of
users and if they take the time to help you get CURDATE() working only to
read later that you know how to handle dates ("i know how to add dates, that
wasn't the point of the post!") is a bit frustrating (in my oppinion
anyway).
> Clarity is a wonderful thing, and sadly the manual isn't clear on this
> matter.
> I stand by my original statement. If you believe it not to be a bug
> then so be it; we agree to disagree.
It's very clear IMHO: it says that CURDATE() produces two kinds of formats,
depending on the context and demonstrates this with two examples.
Furthermore the autoconversion between strings and numbers is also
explained.
Best regards, Jigal.
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