Re: Day of week question

[sNip]
> Why shall 1752 be the default date? The original introduction of
> gregorian dates after all was in 1582. And some parts of the earth
> didn't switch before the 20th century. So, as pointed out, we'd need a
> locale dependant default.
       Since a database can be serving someone in a different locale from the 
local one, this should be configurable at the SQL statement level.
       It would probably also be good to have a system-wide configurable 
default in one of the configuration files to satisfy the needs of those who 
only need to use one system and wish to avoid the overhead of using non-
standard SQL statements.

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