From 9c2a7c2269d1ecebd7f83e769bb2640cb82fa0e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:03:19 +0000
Subject: Apply (a somewhat revised version of) Greg Mullane's patch to
 eliminate heuristic determination of day vs month in date/time input.  Add
 the ability to specify that input is interpreted as yy-mm-dd order (which
 formerly worked, but only for yy greater than 31).  DateStyle's input
 component now has the preferred spellings DMY, MDY, or YMD; the older
 keywords European and US are now aliases for the first two of these. Per
 recent discussions on pgsql-general.

---
 doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml')

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml
index e09c523b1ab..073b83fd7d9 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml,v 1.33 2003/05/02 20:54:33 tgl Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/postgres-ref.sgml,v 1.34 2003/07/29 00:03:17 tgl Exp $
 PostgreSQL documentation
 -->
 
@@ -147,11 +147,10 @@ PostgreSQL documentation
       <term><option>-e</option></term>
       <listitem>
        <para>
-        Sets the default date style to <quote>European</quote>, which
-	means that the <quote>day before month</quote> (rather than
-	month before day) rule is used to interpret ambiguous date
-	input, and that the day is printed before the month in certain
-	date output formats.  See <xref linkend="datatype-datetime"> for more information.
+        Sets the default date style to <quote>European</quote>, that is
+	<literal>DMY</> ordering of input date fields.  This also causes
+	the day to be printed before the month in certain date output formats.
+	See <xref linkend="datatype-datetime"> for more information.
        </para>
       </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
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