| From: | "Karl O(dot) Pinc" <kop(at)meme(dot)com> |
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| To: | Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Converting seconds past midnight to a time |
| Date: | 2005-12-18 07:29:45 |
| Message-ID: | 1134890985l.18569l.11l@mofo |
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On 12/17/2005 10:21:39 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>
> On Dec 18, 2005, at 13:25 , Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>> On a related note is there some reason why
>> interval + int
>> does not result in the interval plus int number
>> of seconds?
>
> Why should the int necessarily represent seconds and not some other
> amount of time? It's just a unit-less value.
Good question. I guess it's because I couldn't corece
an int into an interval number of seconds. ;-) But if it was to be
anything it should be seconds or milliseconds as those
are the only ones that make the math easy, in the sense of
working with whole numbers.
Karl <kop(at)meme(dot)com>
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