change in date format in 2.7
Alen Siljak
alen.siljak at gmx.com
Thu Dec 21 04:27:36 EST 2017
To get back to Sebastien's question: this does seem like a breaking
change at this stage. Going back to 2.6.19 with the database where a
few transactions have been entered in 2.7.2 shows the dates as
1970-01-01.
>Alen,
>
>Oh yeah, SQLite3. That doesn’t have a date type so the backend stores
a formatted string. We use >ISO formatted date output for a lot of
other things and I didn’t see a good reason to write a >special output
function just for the SQLite3 backend when I rewrote the SQL backend in
C++.
>
>We consider the data file formats and SQL schemas to be private
implementation details. If we make >a change that breaks Piecash, too
bad. I told Sébastien that repeatedly and at length three years >ago
when he embarked on the project.
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