I'm doing experiments with the table "pet" where the field "birth" is of 
type "date".  How come
UPDATE pet SET birth = "a2b" WHERE name = "snort";

gives:
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 1  Changed: 0  Warnings: 1

but
UPDATE pet SET birth = "ab" WHERE name = "snort";

gives:
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 1  Changed: 0  Warnings: 0

After a few more tests I determined that I'm getting a warning if I try to 
set the field to a value consisting of a mixture of letters and numbers, 
but I get no warning if the new value consists only of letters.  Shouldn't 
I get a warning if I try to set a date field to a value consisting of all 
letters?

        -Bennett

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