Re: time value '24:00:00'

On Thursday 02 November 2006 00:16, Richard Huxton wrote:
> Uwe C. Schroeder wrote:
> > why don't you just use < '00:00:00'::time
> > and avoid the issue?
> >
> > IMHO there shouldn't even be a 24:00:00, because that would imply that
> > there is a 24:00:01 - which there is not.
> > It should go from 23:59 to 00:00
> > But then, I didn't write the spec for time in general, so maybe there is
> > a 24:00 which is identical to 00:00
>
> Ah, times and dates are wonderful things though. For example, '23:59:60'
> is a valid time (and not equal to 24:00:00 or 00:00:00) every so often.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

Yeah, but isn't the third part milliseconds? Doesn't "milli" imply 1000 and
not 60. I may be totally off here though - well, it's getting late

UC

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