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From: dberg@cod.NOSC.MIL (David I. Berg)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Informix 4gl "construct" statement broken
Message-ID: <1214@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 15 Sep 88 22:38:57 GMT
References: <471@pan.UUCP>
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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In article <471@pan.UUCP>, jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson) writes:
> 
> The Informix 4gl "construct" statement is broken in such a way as to render
> it useless anywhere the "DBDATE" environment variable is used to change the
> default date format.
> 

I echo Watson's concern.  My users can use military format for entering
dates (eg. 13sep88 or 13 sep 88 etc.) on INPUT but must use mm/dd/yy
on queries.

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