Christoph Berg <m...@debian.org> writes:
> Re: Peter Eisentraut
>> Moreover, if there are zero-based months, why not zero-based days,
>> or any of the other fields?
> I would suspect this is coming from C's struct tm where tm_mon is
> 0..11 and all other fields being "normal". Used by asctime(), gmtime()
> and friends.
FWIW, I agree completely with Peter's objections, and here's one more:
the last thing the world needs is yet another way in which datetime
strings can be ambiguous. I think the right answer to the OP's
problem is to push back on the data source.
regards, tom lane
