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That seems to do the trick. However it is an issue on masters I have tested with, do you have any suggestion it is relevant to a particular version of master?

Can this be added to the official documentation as I did search for it but did not find a solution such as this.. How is this documentation produced.

Patrick Dunford wrote:

Can this be added to the official documentation as I did search for it but did not find a solution such as this.. How is this documentation produced.

Patrick, the documentation source is at www.github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation and, from each html doc page you have a link at the bottom to directly access its source file and propose the changes you want. Guidelines to write docs are accessible at http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/documentation_guidelines/index.html. And of course all these information are available in the QGIS main website.

That said, there are some information at http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/expression.html#date-and-time-functions (I don't know if it would have solved your problem, though). I recall that Alexandre made a lot of tests with these field types before writing it. If you wanna complete/improve it, you are of course welcome...

Harrissou Santanna wrote:

Patrick Dunford wrote:

Can this be added to the official documentation as I did search for it but did not find a solution such as this.. How is this documentation produced.

Patrick, the documentation source is at www.github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation and, from each html doc page you have a link at the bottom to directly access its source file and propose the changes you want. Guidelines to write docs are accessible at http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/documentation_guidelines/index.html. And of course all these information are available in the QGIS main website.

That said, there are some information at http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/working_with_vector/expression.html#date-and-time-functions (I don't know if it would have solved your problem, though). I recall that Alexandre made a lot of tests with these field types before writing it. If you wanna complete/improve it, you are of course welcome...

I agree that a patch/contribution to docs would be good. I am anyway wondering if this is not really a bug, in the sense that in case of real date fields the above workaround should be applied by QGIS filter in a transparent way(?). Opinions?

Giovanni Manghi wrote:

I am anyway wondering if this is not really a bug, in the sense that in case of real date fields the above workaround should be applied by QGIS filter in a transparent way(?). Opinions?

Agreed, field type should be enough to QGIS to handle data transparently and do these basic operations.
People should not have to cast it unless they wish to do some other particular process, not easily compatible with the field type.