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Re: Date Columns


Peter has made changes in that area specifically geared to dropping 
the  time component of a date. (I'm assuming you use 310 or 311)
Have a look at the history of changes for more details

Rich Coad wrote:
> 
> I am having trouble with getting dates with greater granularity than days out
> of the InstantDB database.
> 
> The dates are added to the database as a java.util.Date object.  When I llok at
> them as they are entered the date is something like Mon Dec 06 10:25:00 PST 1999
> When I retrieve dates from the database they always appear as Dec 06 1999 and
> the time appears as 4:00 p.m.
> 
> It appears as though the time is being discarded in the database and, when I
> retrieve it, a default of 00:00:00 GMT is being appended which then becomes 4
> p.m PST
> 
> I have tried using a dateFormat setting in the properties file and also a call
> to SET DATE FORMAT prior to creating the table.  Neither had any effect.
> 
> I also tried wrapping the column name in the select with a call to the TO_DATE
> function.  This resulted in a SQLException being thrown.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with getting times down to the granularity of a
> second from InstantDB?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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