Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 02/11/06 19:53

Gert-Jan Strik (sorry@toomuchspamalready.nl) writes:
> But I would probably also specify the datetime as '2006-02-07 02:07:00'.
> I still use SQL 7.0, and this format is upwards compatible. The format
> '2006-02-07T02:07:00' is harder to read, and needs at least SQL Server
> 2000.

But '2006-02-07 02:07:00' is subject to different interpretations depending
on dateformat settings. For instance try:

SET LANGUAGE Dutch
go
SELECT convert(datetime , '2006-02-07 02:07:00')
go
SET LANGUAGE Swedish
go
SELECT convert(datetime , '2006-02-07 02:07:00')
go

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