Just an educated guess, but probably because sqlite tries to be as minimal as possible. Which I have no complaints with, as comparing a double will likely be faster than comparing a string.
On 7/5/05, Johan Danielsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cory Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > create table t_foo(bar real); > > insert into t_foo values(julianday('2005-07-01')); > > Is there any advantage to this compared to storing dates as strings in > (for instance) ISO8601 format? > > /Johan > -- Cory Nelson http://www.int64.org