David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Bruce Momjian<bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>> I feel like someone should take a flame-thrower to that file.
> Dunno about the file, but the whole question of date and time handling
> has been tricky and complicated for all of human history.
Yeah. I think about half the problem is it wasn't tremendously well
written, and half is that it's written to a nonexistent or at least
completely underdetermined specification. If we want to do something
about it, my thought is that writing a real spec would be the right
first step.
regards, tom lane