Re: month abreviation

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Jaime Casanova <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: month abreviation
Date: 2007-06-22 14:49:42
Message-ID: 200706221449.l5MEngc25117@momjian.us
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Jaime Casanova wrote:
> On 6/22/07, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com> wrote:
> > Jaime Casanova wrote:
> >
> > > note the month abreviation (mons?) is this intentional?
> > >
> > This notation has been used since the code was written (~7 years ago) [1].
> >
> > [1]
> > http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/datetime.c?rev=1.42;content-type=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup
> >
>
> mmm... so, it had been bad for 7 years now... ;)
> ok, acceptting that as an abreviattion for months, what controls that.
> why u get "years", "days" and "mons", i mean, why is this one
> abreviated when the other two are not

I thought there was some standard that required that, but I don't
remember which one.

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