On 11/05/18 15:44, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote:
If the machine clock goes back one hour because of a DST transition,
the current time overlaps and the same set of numbers are used twice.
No.

We are talking currently with a normal 64bit TIMESTAMP ...

The comparison with Oracle is that they use a simple TIMESTAMP where possible and add the timezone information outside of the stored data.

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