From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>, PostgreSQL mailing lists <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: fortnight interval support |
Date: | 2015-11-04 17:56:29 |
Message-ID: | CA+Tgmoa4bgTDnJuwLUqsFXzY-k4qBB1pY62feZk6rrxUgm6ZLw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>>> (WRT the reference to Jane Austen and "Se'ennight" for "week", it occurs
>>> to me that fortnight is a similar contraction for "forteen night".)
>>
>> Well, clearly we also need enquië for the elves of Arda and tenday for
>> for Faerûnians. Seems like a serious oversight, though making enquië
>> work in non-Unicode locales might be tricky.
>
> You are forgetting Klingon, parseltongue, dwarfic and the one of
> Mordor. It's not worth angering them as well. But I'll stop here.
I'm not aware that any of those have weeks of some duration other than
7 days, but the lack of support for the Klingon calendar in general is
indeed troubling.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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