Jeff Davis wrote:
Also, they use "period" to mean interval, and "interval" to mean duration -- which is wrong, in my opinion; interval already has a well- defined mathematical meaning.
Agreed, but that mistake actually originates from the SQL standard. The SQL INTERVAL data type is really a duration, so I guess they had to come up with a new term for interval in the mathematical meaning.
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