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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Jonathan S. Katz <jkatz@postgresql.org>
Cc: David Harper <adh@sanger.ac.uk>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Ambiguous language in Table 8.13. Special Date/Time Inputs [EXT]
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2019 14:50:09 -0400
Message-ID: <23186.1562784609@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> The thing I don't like about 00:00:00 is that it is a lot of information
> to say "the start of the day", while I assumed midnight was clear on
> that.  If we can find  a way to say "start of the day (midnight)", that
> would work.

One really simple way to make it shorter is to say "00:00", leaving
out the seconds.

			regards, tom lane





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