Postgres has special date/time input value called 'allballs'
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Re: Postgres has special date/time input value called 'allballs'
#2Potentially where the "all balls" term originated: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/basics/bsf2-3.php
Re: Postgres has special date/time input value called 'allballs'
#3Also a NASA thing, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balls_8.
I think balls is a military term for "00"
Re: Postgres has special date/time input value called 'allballs'
#4My favorite (kind of related) little gem from the postgresql documentation is from the century section of EXTRACT, date_part: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/functions-datetim...
Under the century section it notes:
"The first century starts at 0001-01-01 00:00:00 AD, although they did not know it at the time. This definition applies to all Gregorian calendar countries. There is no century number 0, you go from -1 century to 1 century. If you disagree with this, please write your complaint to: Pope, Cathedral Saint-Peter of Roma, Vatican."
I chuckle imagining someone in the Vatican mail room tossing aside one letter a year related to this.
Re: Postgres has special date/time input value called 'allballs'
#5My favorite (kind of related) little gem from the postgresql documentation is from the century section of EXTRACT, date_part: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/functions-datetim... Under the century section it notes: "The first century starts at 0001-01-01 00:00:00 AD, although they did not know it at the time. This definition applies to all Gregorian calendar countries. There is no century number 0, you go…
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Re: Postgres has special date/time input value called 'allballs'
#6Vintage space episode about All Balls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jCyE0me41Y
Re: Postgres has special date/time input value called 'allballs'
#7The word 'zero' has twice as many syllables.
Re: Postgres has special date/time input value called 'allballs'
#8My favorite (kind of related) little gem from the postgresql documentation is from the century section of EXTRACT, date_part: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/functions-datetim... Under the century section it notes: "The first century starts at 0001-01-01 00:00:00 AD, although they did not know it at the time. This definition applies to all Gregorian calendar countries. There is no century number 0, you go…
"Hi. I have a Toyota Carola 2012, and can't get blutooth working..."
:D For anyone who missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12949114