Re: Ambiguous language in Table 8.13. Special Date/Time Inputs [EXT]
David Harper <[email protected]>
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> I actually agree with your opinion that "midnight" is fine. > That text has been that way for over fifteen years[1], and > nobody's complained before that it was ambiguous. Conversely, how many users over the past fifteen years have read that table, and then felt compelled (as I did) to run a query such as select 'today'::timestamp,'yesterday'::timestamp,'tomorrow'::timestamp; on their PostgreSQL cluster to clear the ambiguity for themselves? Best regards David Harper Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, England -- The Wellcome Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.