[TYPO3-english] Difference empty dates and 1/1/70 date

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Xavier Perseguers wrote:
> DATE/DATETIME datatype is supported by any decent DBMS. Timestamp are
> unfriendly when accessing the data directly (e.g, phpMyAdmin) and not
> being able to store a date < 1970 as of September 2010 seems really weird!

Yes, even SQL'92 defines DATETIME...

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~shadow/sql/sql1992.txt

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