month abreviation
Hi,
I got this answer in my
version
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PostgreSQL 8.3devel on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC)
4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
(1 row)
note the month abreviation (mons?) is this intentional?
sgerp=# select age(current_date, '1979-08-15'::date);
age
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27 years 10 mons 5 days
(1 row)
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Atentamente,
Jaime Casanova
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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]http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/datetime.c?rev=1.42;content-type=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup.
[1]: http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/datetime.c?rev=1.42;content-type=text%2Fx-cvsweb-markup
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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On 6/22/07, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.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].
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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regards,
Jaime Casanova
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the universe trying
to produce bigger and better idiots.
So far, the universe is winning."
Richard Cook
Jaime Casanova wrote:
On 6/22/07, Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.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].
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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