Re: lc_time and localized dates

Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com> writes:
> FYI, strftime() [1] doesn't say anything about capitalization. I don't
> know if some translators are aware of it and even if they are, how would
> they know that a day or month is the first word of a sentence? IMHO we
> should provide Xxxxx, xxxxx, and XXXXX so the programmer can use
> whatever he/she thinks is correct for him/her.

I think you've missed the point, which is that the programmer can't
possibly know in advance which capitalization is correct, if she's
trying to build a system that works for different localizations.

But as Peter remarks nearby, this discussion is wasted anyway, because
there is only one correct answer: whatever Oracle does with these
cases is what to_char() should do.

regards, tom lane