Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:

>
> >Technically it is locale-dependent conversion as well.
>

True for PostgreSQL, but not Firebird.

>
> Technically it's not. It's not locale-dependent and it's not (in most
> contexts) a conversion but encoding of recognised literal formats. The fact
> that it uses English abbreviations for calendar months is not due to locale
> but to a xenophobic implementation.
>

Probably deep in the bowels there are the remains of a translation facility
which at one point included a database that stored the translations of
literals, common strings (like month names), and error messages. However,
it never handled other calendars, so if you want to go all Mayan and end
the world next year, you're out of luck.


Ann


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