| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Mikhail Titov <mlt(at)gmx(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Leading minus for negative time interval in ISO 8601 |
| Date: | 2020-06-11 22:51:33 |
| Message-ID: | 20200611225133.GC2507@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 11:18:20PM -0500, Mikhail Titov wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 11:25 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > ...
> > Maybe we should just take the position that negative intervals aren't
> > standardized, and if you want to transport them using ISO format then
> > you first need to lobby ISO to fix that.
>
> Apparently ISO did "fix" this. I managed to get a copy of ISO
> 8601-2:2019(E) and I insist on reconsidering the patch. Here is an
> excerpt from page 12 of the standard:
This shows the problem of trying to honor a standard which is not
publicly available.
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