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Re: [PATCH] Leading minus for negative time interval in ISO 8601 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [PATCH] Leading minus for negative time interval in ISO 8601
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Msg-id 20200611225133.GC2507@momjian.us
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Leading minus for negative time interval in ISO 8601  (Mikhail Titov <mlt@gmx.us>)
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On Tue, Jun  9, 2020 at 11:18:20PM -0500, Mikhail Titov wrote:
> On Wed, Jun  3, 2020 at 11:25 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> > ...
> > Maybe we should just take the position that negative intervals aren't
> > standardized, and if you want to transport them using ISO format then
> > you first need to lobby ISO to fix that.
> 
> Apparently ISO did "fix" this. I managed to get a copy of ISO
> 8601-2:2019(E) and I insist on reconsidering the patch. Here is an
> excerpt from page 12 of the standard:

This shows the problem of trying to honor a standard which is not
publicly available.

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