Re: ecmascript 5 DATESTYLE

2011/12/7 ben hockey <neonstalwart(at)gmail(dot)com>:
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> On Dec 7, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
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> On tis, 2011-12-06 at 15:15 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
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> TBH, I think that inventing a new datestyle setting "ECMA" would be a
>
> more appropriate investment of effort.
>
>
> So we'd have a setting called "ECMA" that's really ISO, and a setting
> called "ISO" that's really SQL, and a setting called "SQL" that's really
> Postgres, and a setting called "Postgres" that's also Postgres but
> different.
>
>
> ...and a setting called "XSD" that's also ISO.
>
> for now i'm backing away from the ECMA option - what i was thinking of would
> be exactly the same as "XSD" except rather than a timezone of '+00:00' it
> would be a 'Z'.  from some quick searching, it seems that XSD should be
> capable of understanding 'Z' rather than '+00:00' so if i was going to do
> anything i'd work towards making that change to 'XSD'.
>
> however, as it turns out, the constraint i have that is requiring me to use
> 'Z' is not actually from ECMAScript 5 but from json-schema
> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zyp-json-schema-03#section-5.23).  XSD is
> fully compatible with ECMAScript 5 date time string format
> (http://es5.github.com/#x15.9.1.15)  so i'm going to sit on this again for a
> little while and think some more.  maybe try to convince json-schema to
> relax their definition of date-time format.
>
> i'll be back when i have a clear picture of what i think makes the most
> sense.

please do it - we still would to have JSON support, so date style can
be processed together

Regards

Pavel

>
> thanks,
>
> ben...