Thread: IYYY: unexpected behaviour

Hi,

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SELECT to_char( '2006-01-01'::timestamp, 'IYYY-MM-DD' ) AS strange,

       to_char( '2006-01-02'::timestamp, 'IYYY-MM-DD' ),

       to_char( '2006-01-01'::timestamp, 'YYYY-MM-DD' );

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does produce unexpected result for column 'strange':

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  strange   |  to_char   |  to_char

------------+------------+------------

 2005-01-01 | 2006-01-02 | 2006-01-01

(1 row)

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Is this a bug?

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select version();

"PostgreSQL 8.2beta1 on i686-pc-mingw32, compiled by GCC gcc.exe (GCC)
3.4.2 (mingw-special)"

Zubkovsky, Sergey wrote:
> SELECT to_char( '2006-01-01'::timestamp, 'IYYY-MM-DD' ) AS strange,
>        to_char( '2006-01-02'::timestamp, 'IYYY-MM-DD' ),
>        to_char( '2006-01-01'::timestamp, 'YYYY-MM-DD' );
>
> does produce unexpected result for column 'strange':
>
>   strange   |  to_char   |  to_char
> ------------+------------+------------
>  2005-01-01 | 2006-01-02 | 2006-01-01

This is correct.  January 1, 2006 belongs to 2005 in this "ISO" way of
counting.

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Peter Eisentraut
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