On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Dickson S. Guedes <listas@guedesoft.net> wrote:
2015-08-14 21:40 GMT-03:00 David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>: > On Friday, August 14, 2015, Dickson S. Guedes <listas@guedesoft.net> wrote: >> >> >> The term is used in a school or college to represent a half-year. >> Actually it could be evaluated from a date using some math with >> 'quarter' but could not be extracted from date since the API to define >> a "reserved word" for EXTRACT is in the core, rather than in SQL. >> > > If this is wanted a more consistent word would be "half" since we already > accept quarter.
In your opinion: "half" or "halfyear" ?
We don't say "quarteryear" so there would need to be a compelling argument for "halfyear" over simply "half"
