| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Decade indication |
| Date: | 2020-01-17 22:52:01 |
| Message-ID: | 20200117225201.GC14054@momjian.us |
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On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 08:52:17AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 1, 2020 at 11:01 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >> I see Randall Munroe has weighed in on this topic:
> >> https://xkcd.com/2249/
>
> > And the conclusion is ... the whole discussion is stupid?
>
> Well, it's not terribly useful anyway. Arguments founded on an
> assumption that there's anything rational or consistent about
> human calendars tend to run into problems with that assumption.
I assume there is enough agreement that decades start on 20X0 that we
don't need to document that Postgres does that.
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