Re: [HACKERS] month abreviation

2007-06-22 Thread Jaime Casanova

On 6/22/07, Euler Taveira de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

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Re: [HACKERS] month abreviation

2007-06-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jaime Casanova wrote:
 On 6/22/07, Euler Taveira de Oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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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Re: [HACKERS] month abreviation

2007-06-21 Thread Euler Taveira de Oliveira
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


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