On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:11 PM, Dickson S. Guedes <lis...@guedesoft.net> wrote:
> 2015-08-14 21:40 GMT-03:00 David G. Johnston <david.g.johns...@gmail.com>: > > On Friday, August 14, 2015, Dickson S. Guedes <lis...@guedesoft.net> > wrote: > >> > >> > >> The term is used in a school or college to represent a half-year. > >> Actually it could be evaluated from a date using some math with > >> 'quarter' but could not be extracted from date since the API to define > >> a "reserved word" for EXTRACT is in the core, rather than in SQL. > >> > > > > If this is wanted a more consistent word would be "half" since we already > > accept quarter. > > In your opinion: "half" or "halfyear" ? > > We don't say "quarteryear" so there would need to be a compelling argument for "halfyear" over simply "half" David J.
