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  • Author(s): Martin Pitt
  • Date: 2011-05-11 10:41:53 UTC
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
 
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<HTML
 
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>Date/Time Support</TITLE
 
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NAME="GENERATOR"
 
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK
 
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HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK
 
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TITLE="PostgreSQL 9.1beta1 Documentation"
 
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HREF="index.html"><LINK
 
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TITLE="Appendixes"
 
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TITLE="PostgreSQL Error Codes"
 
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HREF="errcodes-appendix.html"><LINK
 
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TITLE="Date/Time Input Interpretation"
 
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>PostgreSQL 9.1beta1 Documentation</A
 
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>Appendix B. Date/Time Support</H1
 
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>Table of Contents</B
 
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>B.1. <A
 
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>Date/Time Input Interpretation</A
 
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>Date/Time Key Words</A
 
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>Date/Time Configuration Files</A
 
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>B.4. <A
 
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>History of Units</A
 
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>PostgreSQL</SPAN
 
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> uses an internal heuristic
 
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   parser for all date/time input support. Dates and times are input as
 
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   strings, and are broken up into distinct fields with a preliminary
 
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   determination of what kind of information can be in the
 
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   field. Each field is interpreted and either assigned a numeric
 
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   value, ignored, or rejected.
 
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   The parser contains internal lookup tables for all textual fields,
 
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   including months, days of the week, and time zones.
 
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>   This appendix includes information on the content of these
 
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   lookup tables and describes the steps used by the parser to decode
 
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   dates and times.
 
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