[DDI-users] Re: Csaba's questions

[Sigbjoern Revheim]

At 12:40 21.01.2004 +0100, Csaba Zsadányi-Nagy wrote:
>The ISO date format is the other problem. Firstly, lots of our old "study
>descriptions" are not very standard, the date fields (contain alphabetical
>caracters, mention only the year, etc.). Please tell me whether it is a
>correct solution to transform the incomplete date records to YYYY-00-00
>format, simulate month and day with two zeroes.

No, this is not the correct way to do it. You should leave out the 
day/month if you don't have it.
Examples of legal ISO dates:
1999
1999-02
1999-02-23

Best wishes,
Sigbjoern