[gdal-dev] OGR precision vs Scale and DateTime values not set

[Markus Neteler]

On Dec 29, 2007 9:19 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Clay, Bruce wrote:
...
> > Also the DateTime fields are not getting set.  If I use the
> > DisplayFeature method in the c# createData.cs example, the date time
> > fields appear to be set properly (2006/10/10 9:00:00) but is I use
> > ogrinfo –al the the date fields are not set.
>
> Are you working with Shapefiles?  I think the shapefile driver only
> supports date fields, not datetime or time.  But I would expect that
> at least the date would be handled.  If you can file a bug demonstrating
> broken OFTDate field support, I would appreciate that.

It would be a nice-to-have also for GRASS:

cd grass63/db/drivers/dbf
[neteler at localhost dbf]$ grep -i date *
...
dbfexe.c:       case (SQLP_DATE):  /* DATE treated as string unless
SHAPELIB/DBFLIB supports date type */

This is a working but ugly approach...

Markus