On 12/4/06, John Siracusa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps Rose::DB::Oracle could have a hard-coded default bit of > post_connect_sql to set nls_date_format, but I'd prefer it if I could > handle whatever Oracle produces if you do not set nls_date_format > explicitly. Or is there no default and it must always be set > explicitly? (I've never really used Oracle, obviously...)
There is a default (in the english world) of DD-MON-YY (23-JAN-00) but the DBA may change it on you, that's why it's safer to reset it for each session to enforce your expectations or you run into bugs like this one: http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/NLS_DATE.html It's much safer to alter nls_date_format explicitly, since a Rose::DB::Objects user that specifies a datetime column wants to reliably get the DateTime object back and this is the most robust approach to achieving DWIM. Another method would be to setup some metadata on Rose::DB::Object::Metadata::Column::Datetime to a strptime pattern to be used to parse the datetime format? More oracle goodies here: http://philip.greenspun.com/sql/ -- Clayton Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Rose-db-object mailing list Rose-db-object@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rose-db-object
