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From Steve Crawford
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In response to [DOCS] Reg Date/Time function  (segu.sandeep@gmail.com)
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Per the docs, justify_days  is to "Adjust interval so 30-day time periods are represented as months" so 360 days = 12 months = 1 year so 365 days is 1-year 5-days.

There are all sorts of oddities and special assumptions regarding date/time calculations made even more complicated by the need to support special use-cases such as 30/360 financial coupon factor calculations (every month is 30-days and years have 360 days).

Cheers,
Steve


On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 5:30 PM, <segu.sandeep@gmail.com> wrote:
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:

Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/functions-datetime.html
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Hi,
I am going through PostgreSQL, for the first day. And it was great till
now.
One quick question/doubt regarding the function &quot;justify_days(interval)&quot;

select justify_days(interval &#39;365 days&#39;);

this statement returns  1 year 5 days, whereas I feel it should be just 1
year.

Please correct me if I am wrong.. Thanks for all your time.

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