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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 10:52:54 +0200
From: Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
Cc: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>,
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Subject: Re: CVSup upgrade to fix the timestamp bug
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 11:24:17AM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> Well, there was a Bugtraq post today about a S1G bug in MySQL (and quite
> possibly other SQL servers as well) and keeping Unix timestamps in
> (var)?char fields :) (not that I really understand why anyone would want
> to keep a Unix timestamp in a character field..)

Character fields are independent from the machine byte order.

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