On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
I'm not sure how the date data type can be representation agnostic.
What ever the OS provides (via a system call) is in reference to a
starting point in some calendar. On UNIX systems, this is
traditionally the number of seconds since January 1,
Quoting Behdad Esfahbod [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
http://bamdad.org/~roozbeh/alef.jpg
Smart! That can be useful in hex numbers written in Arabic
script too. Indeed they want it to look like one letter, and
don't want the Alef to be read as 1.
Smart indeed! Put this on the list of
Well, that's why I'm saying your implementation is not what MySQL
people expect. The date data type is representation-agnostic
itself, and AddDate, DateDiff, etc work with the date data type
(at least in MySQL). What you need is functions to covert from
internal date representation to
