Re: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] Gregorian Calendar

1999-04-14 Thread José Soares
Hi Thomas, Thomas Lockhart ha scritto: > > I have a question about dates. > > The Gregorian reform of calendar skiped 10 days on Oct, 1582. > > This reform was accepted by Great Britain and Dominions (including > > what is now the USA) only in 1752. > > If I insert a date that doesn't exist Post

[GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] Gregorian Calendar

1999-04-12 Thread Taral
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, José Soares wrote: > $ cal 9 1752 The cal program has special hacks for that case. The date system doesn't know about the Gregorian Reform of dates. Taral

[GENERAL] RE: [HACKERS] Gregorian Calendar

1999-04-12 Thread Peter Mount
Because most of my own code is Astronomical based, any of my time code treats the skipped days in 1582 as invalid. However, I think we should be careful with postgres, as anyone who is storing dates for historical purposes, may be recording the dates for a region who didn't change on that date (i