Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> On Sat, 2011-03-12 at 22:29 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> On fre, 2011-03-11 at 12:50 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> > It has bothered me that many of our time routines use special magic
>> > constants for time values, e.g. 24, 12, 60, etc.
>> >
>> > The attached patch changes these magic constants to macros to clarify
>> > the code. I would like to apply this for 9.1 as a cleanup.
>>
>> I think it's much clearer with the plain numbers.
>
> Yeh. It's not like the values 24, 12 or 60 were going to change.
Would it help moving toward Leap Second support, and is this something
we want to have?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
Regards,
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