From c87882076be910beff88c91665614cb7372d8833 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:33:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Allow date and datetime values to be formatted into strings

---
 src/value.cc | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/value.cc b/src/value.cc
index f17f2b61..d04e5ef9 100644
--- a/src/value.cc
+++ b/src/value.cc
@@ -863,6 +863,25 @@ void value_t::in_place_cast(type_t cast_type)
     }
     break;
 
+  case DATE:
+    switch (cast_type) {
+    case STRING:
+      set_string(format_date(as_date(), string("%Y-%m-%d")));
+      return;
+    default:
+      break;
+    }
+    break;
+  case DATETIME:
+    switch (cast_type) {
+    case STRING:
+      set_string(format_datetime(as_datetime(), string("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")));
+      return;
+    default:
+      break;
+    }
+    break;
+
   case INTEGER:
     switch (cast_type) {
     case AMOUNT: