[GRASS-user] v.out.ogr and Date fields

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 8:30 PM Markus Metz
<markus.metz.giswork at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 4:52 PM Markus Metz <markus.metz.giswork at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 3:01 PM Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
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> > > Hi Daniel,
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> > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 12:23 PM Daniel McInerney
> > > <daniel.o.mcinerney at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > Hi List,
> > > >
> > > > As part of a workflow, we are importing ESRI Shapefiles into GRASS so
> > > > that we can manage the vector topology, before re-exporting the vectors
> > > > back to an ESRI Shapefile. However, we noticed that the date fields are
> > > > being converted from a field of type Date to type String.
> >
> > Indeed, this happens in v.out.ogr, should be easy to fix. Can you create a ticket just as a reminder?
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> Please try https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/184
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> Markus M

FYI:

This fix is part of the freshly released GRASS GIS 7.8.1:
https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Release/7.8.1-News

markusN