| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: TH to_char modifier doesn't work with HH12 |
| Date: | 2009-07-06 19:14:45 |
| Message-ID: | 19851.1246907685@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Bruce Momjian<bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
>>> I feel like someone should take a flame-thrower to that file.
> Dunno about the file, but the whole question of date and time handling
> has been tricky and complicated for all of human history.
Yeah. I think about half the problem is it wasn't tremendously well
written, and half is that it's written to a nonexistent or at least
completely underdetermined specification. If we want to do something
about it, my thought is that writing a real spec would be the right
first step.
regards, tom lane
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