Re: On what we want to support: travel?

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Dan Langille <dan(at)langille(dot)org>
Cc: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: On what we want to support: travel?
Date: 2006-11-06 17:46:41
Message-ID: 20061106174641.GC3392@alvh.no-ip.org
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Dan Langille wrote:
> On 6 Nov 2006 at 10:46, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 20:29:43 -0500,
> >
> > It also means more users to support. Depending on the mix of new users,
> > the overall effect on the project could end up being negative.
>
> That is possible. It is not probable. The existing culture affects
> affects new users. They tend to adapt accordingly.

Hmm ...

$ LC_ALL=C sdate
Mon Sep 4815 14:43:41 CLST 1993
$ man sdate

sdate(1) Debian manual sdate(1)

NAME
sdate - never ending September date

SYNOPSIS
sdate [-e|--epoch yyyy-mm] [-l|--lib library] [--] [command]

DESCRIPTION
sdate runs a command in an environment wherein it wraps the
libc localtime() and gmtime() calls such that the program
will use the eternal September date.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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