Re: [libdb-develop] Dates In An RDBMS - Years Only?

[Morbus I. <mo...@di...>]

 >Is it forseeable that you might have a date assigned to an item, like
 >Jimi Hendrix Live At Woodstock? If not, then I guess this distinction could

That'd be a date assigned to an expression (since, regardless of CD or 
cassette, it's the same date at woodstock), and in that regard, it'd just
be the year itself.

 >I guess I don't see it as particuarly evil to have 1999-00-00 in the db, if
 >the display code knows that it needs to reformat the date. Especially
 >since 1999-07-04 may have to be reformatted as well :)

Fair enough. Anyone else want to weigh in? Bruce?


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