Re: TH to_char modifier doesn't work with HH12 - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From David Fetter
Subject Re: TH to_char modifier doesn't work with HH12
Date
Msg-id 20090706183856.GF32215@fetter.org
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In response to Re: TH to_char modifier doesn't work with HH12  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: TH to_char modifier doesn't work with HH12  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Re: TH to_char modifier doesn't work with HH12  (Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 02:30:12PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Greg Stark wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Bruce Momjian<bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > > I feel like someone should take a flame-thrower to that file.
> > > ?;-)
> >
> > If you were half the man you used to be would you?
>
> I thought we had flame-throwed it a couple of of times, with
> overhauls, but obviously we didn't do a thorough enough job.  I am
> thinking there is something structurally/fundamentally wrong with a
> file that continually has so many bugs.

Dunno about the file, but the whole question of date and time handling
has been tricky and complicated for all of human history.

Cheers,
David.
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