"Adam Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not apologizing for their past mistakes.. But the issue > you cite is no longer true: > "As of 5.0.2, the server requires that month and day values > be legal, and not merely in the range 1 to 12 and 1 to 31, > respectively."
Really? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mysql test Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 2 Server version: 5.0.32 Source distribution Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql> create table test ( td DATE ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec) mysql> insert into test values ('35-Feb-2007'); Query OK, 1 row affected, 1 warning (0.00 sec) mysql> select * from test; +------------+ | td | +------------+ | 0000-00-00 | +------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> Note that this case is *not* testing whether mysql knows that February has less than 31 days. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster