I have a small program that takes a flat file and dumps it to a postgres table via DBI. Previously it just inserted the dates as a text string, someone now wants the dates in a date or a timestamp field to improve sorting capabilities.

No big deal right? Somewhere along the line my date are being interpolated wrongly, or I could be feeding the data in wrong I'm not quite sure.

The date format in the flat file is yy-mm-dd
In my code I split it up, and rearrange it how postgres wants it (mm/dd/yyyy)
I've tried /'s and -'s as delimeters.

Example: raw date from file: 05-12-01
modified date as i insert it: 12/01/2005
date stored in table after insertion: 2001-05-12

Example 2: raw date from file: 06-01-25
modified date as i insert it: 01/25/2006
date stored in table after insertion: 2025-06-01

The behavior is exactly the same whether its a timestamp field or a date field.
This seems like such a trivial problem, but it has really thrown me for a loop. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

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In reply to DBI & date/timestamp problem by BigGuy

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