Simon Slavin
<slav...@hearsay.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> On 8 Oct 2009, at 9:35pm, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>>   A closer look tells me that the string format is incorrect for
>> SQL. It
>> needs to be YYYY-MM-DD rather than D/M/YYYY. That incorrect format
>> seems to
>> be the problem.
>
> It can be anything which sorts into the correct order when seen as a
> string.  So
>
> YYYYMMDD
> YYYY/MM/DD
> YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
>
> will all work.  As long as you pick one and keep to it.

But note that SQLite built-in date/time functions handle some of these formats 
better than others. See 
http://www.sqlite.org/lang_datefunc.html . This only matters if you need to 
perform computations on your dates that go beyond simple 
comparisons.

Igor Tandetnik 


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