From: Tino Wildenhain <tino@wildenhain.de>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu@skype.net>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Interval subtracting
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 08:05:11 +0100
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Hannu Krosing schrieb:
> Ühel kenal päeval, K, 2006-03-01 kell 14:36, kirjutas Scott Marlowe:
>
...
> But we do say both "quarter past three" (3 hours 15 min) and "quarter to
> four" (4 hours -15 min) when talking about time.
>
but luckily we dont write it ;)
Some people say (like ) this: quarter past 3, half past 3, three quartes
past 3, 4. Which seems more logical. :-)
But "saying" would be a job for to_char, not for internal storage,
which should _always_ be canonical.
Regards
Tino
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