Here is a documentation patch that makes it all more consistent.
Chris
Marcus Börger wrote:
> Hello Christopher,
>
> Wednesday, October 22, 2003, 10:21:02 AM, you wrote:
>
>
>>>>What in the heck is 'zulu', 'allballs' or 'z'???
Index: doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/pgsql-server/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.126
diff -c -r1.126 datatype.sgml
*** doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml 16 Oct 2003 04:52:21 -0000 1.126
--- doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml 22 Oct 2003 09:02:10 -0000
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*** 1573,1582 ****
<entry><literal>04:05 PM</literal></entry>
<entry>same as 16:05; input hour must be <= 12</entry>
</row>
- <row>
- <entry><literal>allballs</literal></entry>
- <entry>same as 00:00:00</entry>
- </row>
<row>
<entry>04:05:06.789-8</entry>
<entry>ISO 8601</entry>
--- 1573,1578 ----
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*** 1627,1632 ****
--- 1623,1636 ----
<entry>-8</entry>
<entry>ISO-8601 offset for PST</entry>
</row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>zulu</entry>
+ <entry>Military abbreviation for GMT</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>z</entry>
+ <entry>Short form of zulu</entry>
+ </row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
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*** 1828,1834 ****
<entry>midnight yesterday</entry>
</row>
<row>
! <entry><literal>zulu</>, <literal>allballs</>, <literal>z</></entry>
<entry><type>time</type></entry>
<entry>00:00:00.00 UTC</entry>
</row>
--- 1832,1838 ----
<entry>midnight yesterday</entry>
</row>
<row>
! <entry><literal>allballs</literal></entry>
<entry><type>time</type></entry>
<entry>00:00:00.00 UTC</entry>
</row>