The day_periods
table contains rules for naming periods of time throughout
a day. There are 519 rows that comprise a day period name
and rule for a locale. There may be only two rows associated with a locale
but many more if a locale has many names for periods of a day. The following
columns are included:
locale
(character
)period
(character
)from
(character
)to
(character
)at
(character
)
The period
value provides an identifier for the period of time. For a given
locale there may typically be "afternoon1"
and "evening1"
period
identifiers. Some may have quite a few periods defined (perhaps with
"morning1"
and "morning2"
rules). A period is either a block of time
defined by the from
and to
columns, or, a set time (like "noon"
and
"midnight"
) found in the at
column. The period
values are typically
obtained from this dataset in order to obtain localized text from
the dates and dates_generic datasets (within the dayperiods_*
columns).