Re: [Firebird-devel] Conversion error from string to date in Firebird 4

[Vlad K. <hv...@us...>]

20.10.2020 13:43, Dmitry Yemanov wrote:
> 20.10.2020 13:40, Roman Simakov wrote:
>>
>>>> Because documentantion here
>>>> (https://firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-date-literals/) says they are valid
>>>> separators.
>>>
>>> Keep in mind, that link is an excerpt from Helen Borrie's Firebird Book
>>> from 2004 (Firebird 1.5 era). It is descriptive of what worked at the
>>> time, it is not prescriptive as to how Firebird is supposed to behave.
>>
>> Why not? For me and lots of other developers, who have been using such
>> code, it's exactly how Firebird is supposed to behave :)
>> In other words, what are the reasons to break the backward compatibility?
> 
> AFAIU, it was discussed here in February 2018, thread "Valid date or not".

   I've re-read that thread quickly and I saw nor final decision, nor proposition
to change (or break) rules for traditional (legacy) date\time types (without TZ).

Regards,
Vlad