"David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Dec 1, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> I think the end of string should be treated like a field separator,
>> colon in this example, and we should accept both of the above.
>> Opinions?
> I'm generally in favor of being generous in the input one can accept,
> but in this case it seems ambiguous to me. Is that supposed to be :30
> or :03? There's no way to tell.
But notice that we are allowing a single digit for the hour and minute
fields. It's inconsistent that the last field works differently.
(And it is that it's the last field, not that it's SS --- try minutes
as the last field.)
regards, tom lane