[Qgis-developer] Export MAPINFO: field DATE,DATETIME, ...

[romain riviere]

Thanks,
Bad news...

Any idea about auto date transformation in qgis ?

Romain,
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2011/8/12 Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>

> As far as I know this is a limitation of the MapInfo ogr driver that QGIS
> uses http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_mitab.html
>
>
> Mainly this section:
>
> Only Integer, Real and String field types can be created. The various list,
>> and binary field types cannot be created.
>
>
> I'm sure it could be patched to support datetime, just need to find someone
> willing to do it.
>
> - Nathan
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:12 PM, romain riviere <
> romain.riviere.974 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was wondering why, in qgis 1.7, while saving an open mapinfo file as
>> another mapinfo file, some fields are transformed:
>> DATE, DATETIME, ...
>>
>> ex: mapinfo(DATE)->QGIS(DATE)->save as... mapinfo -> MAPINFO(TEXT)
>>
>> Is there a way to do that using QGIS Python API ?
>>
>> My goal was to export a layer (pyqgis), as a mapinfo layer, conserving the
>> exact structure.
>>
>> Another question: the date was originally like  11/02/2010 in mapinfo and
>> becomes 2010/02/11 in QGIS, why?
>>
>> Romain,
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