From: Bruce Momjian Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 07:33:05 +0000 (-0500) Subject: C comment: mention why the Gregorian calendar is used pre-1582 X-Git-Tag: REL9_5_ALPHA1~1263 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=171c377a0abe12d1418540dc154feccd9355995e;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git C comment: mention why the Gregorian calendar is used pre-1582 --- diff --git a/src/include/utils/datetime.h b/src/include/utils/datetime.h index 9b53ee38ccf..548758a1493 100644 --- a/src/include/utils/datetime.h +++ b/src/include/utils/datetime.h @@ -271,6 +271,11 @@ extern const char *const months[]; /* months (3-char abbreviations) */ extern const char *const days[]; /* days (full names) */ extern const int day_tab[2][13]; +/* + * These are the rules for the Gregorian calendar, which was adopted in 1582. + * However, we use this calculation for all prior years as well because the + * SQL standard specifies use of the Gregorian calendar. + */ #define isleap(y) (((y) % 4) == 0 && (((y) % 100) != 0 || ((y) % 400) == 0))