On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 11:09 AM Magnus Holmgren <magnus.holmg...@millnet.se>
wrote:

>
> There's just this tiny but seemingly obvious issue that I can't believe I
> haven't noticed until now: to_date(now(), 'TMmonth') returns 'october' in
> an
> English locale (en_US.UTF-8 at least). Names of months and weekdays are
> proper
> nouns and as such *always* capitalized in English, so that seems wrong to
> me.
>
> IMHO, the patterns of TO_CHAR() do as promised in the documentation [1]:

MONTH full upper case month name (blank-padded to 9 chars)
Month full capitalized month name (blank-padded to 9 chars)
month full lower case month name (blank-padded to 9 chars)

What you are proposing looks more like a new feature than a bug.

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-formatting.html

Regards,

Juan José Santamaría Flecha

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