Re: Conversion errors for datetime fields

From: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Conversion errors for datetime fields
Date: 2000-12-29 04:13:56
Message-ID: 20001228221356.A8781@lerami.lerctr.org
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* Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> [001228 22:01]:
> > SO, we need to allow it as well. I suspect the C99 standard or
> > some other POSIX/SUS/etc standard changed.
>
> C99 *corrects* this error; it specifies 0-60 not 0-61 as the range
> of tm_sec. (It also describes actual support for leap-second
> timekeeping, which the original C standard did not.)
>
> But this is all irrelevant, anyway, unless you want people to install
> atomic clocks before they can run Postgres. We don't have support for
> leap-second timekeeping, and few if any of the platforms we run on
> do either. IMHO, accepting :60 when we do not have the ability to do
> anything correct with it won't improve matters.
>
> regards, tom lane
Ok. I just wanted to mention what I had thought was an
*Authoritative* source.

Thanks for your research time.....

LER

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