European dates with Win32 version

Started by Raymond O'Donnellover 21 years ago5 messagesgeneral
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Hi all,

This is probably a silly question, but.......how do I get European-
style dates with 8.0 for Win32?

I'm running on XP Pro, and I've tried adding -o "-o -e" to the pg_ctl
command line (as one would on Linux) - I had to edit the registry to
insert it at the end of the command line. However, the service falls
over with the following in the event log:

pg_ctl.exe: invalid option (null)

I also tried putting the same options in the "start parameters" part
of the properties sheet for the PostgreSQL service, but while the
service started without problem it made no difference to the date
output.

Any help will be appreciated.

--Ray O'Donnell

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Raymond O'Donnell http://www.galwaycathedral.org/recitals
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#2Daniel Schuchardt
daniel_schuchardt@web.de
In reply to: Raymond O'Donnell (#1)
Re: European dates with Win32 version

Raymond O'Donnell schrieb:

This is probably a silly question, but.......how do I get European-
style dates with 8.0 for Win32?

do you know

# - Locale and Formatting -

datestyle = 'iso, dmy'

in postgresql.conf?

In reply to: Daniel Schuchardt (#2)
Re: European dates with Win32 version

On 30 Aug 2004 at 18:19, Daniel Schuchardt wrote:

do you know
# - Locale and Formatting -
datestyle = 'iso, dmy'
in postgresql.conf?

Now I do!! - that's fixed it - thanks.

--Ray.

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Raymond O'Donnell http://www.galwaycathedral.org/recitals
rod@iol.ie Galway Cathedral Recitals
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#4Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Raymond O'Donnell (#1)
Re: European dates with Win32 version

OK, we just tested this on Win32 and it now works fine. Seems we must
have fixed it somehow between your report and now.

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Raymond O'Donnell wrote:

Hi all,

This is probably a silly question, but.......how do I get European-
style dates with 8.0 for Win32?

I'm running on XP Pro, and I've tried adding -o "-o -e" to the pg_ctl
command line (as one would on Linux) - I had to edit the registry to
insert it at the end of the command line. However, the service falls
over with the following in the event log:

pg_ctl.exe: invalid option (null)

I also tried putting the same options in the "start parameters" part
of the properties sheet for the PostgreSQL service, but while the
service started without problem it made no difference to the date
output.

Any help will be appreciated.

--Ray O'Donnell

-------------------------------------------------------------
Raymond O'Donnell http://www.galwaycathedral.org/recitals
rod@iol.ie Galway Cathedral Recitals
-------------------------------------------------------------

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In reply to: Bruce Momjian (#4)
Re: European dates with Win32 version

On 7 Oct 2004 at 14:48, Bruce Momjian wrote:

OK, we just tested this on Win32 and it now works fine. Seems we must
have fixed it somehow between your report and now.

Good on ye! Someone else also pointed out to me the following in
postgresql.conf -

datestyle = 'iso, dmy'

- which I hadn't been aware of, and which has fixed my problem.
Thanks for the reply!

--Ray.

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Raymond O'Donnell http://www.galwaycathedral.org/recitals
rod@iol.ie Galway Cathedral Recitals
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