From: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
To: Merlin Moncure <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com>
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: allballs
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 13:06:45 -0700
Message-ID: <20050124200645.GA6126@winnie.fuhr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6EE64EF3AB31D5448D0007DD34EEB3412A75D9@Herge.rcsinc.local>
References: <6EE64EF3AB31D5448D0007DD34EEB3412A75D9@Herge.rcsinc.local>
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:28:48PM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> I have to ask this...why is 'allballs' accepted as a literal for time?
"Allballs" is slang for "all zeros" because zeros look like balls.
You hear it sometimes in environments that use a 24-hour clock
(communications, military, etc.). Here's an example:
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/bsf2-3.html
I don't know that "allballs" is specified in any standard, so I
suspect that somebody who used the term added it to PostgreSQL
(or whatever it was called at the time) for convenience.
--
Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
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