Thank you Brian and Sergei. Actually I have read that disclaimer on the top. But still I don't want to believe that time zone support is not available in our Maria DB. I am trying to convince myself the reality now.
Thank you all for your prompt response. On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Brian Evans <grkni...@scent-team.com> wrote: > On 2/23/2017 9:11 AM, Karthick Subramanian wrote: > > Hi Experts, > > I got this error, not sure whether maria db supports time zone: > > MariaDB [devdb]> create table ts (dt datetime, tz timestamp with time zone > ); > ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual > that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use > near 'time zone)' at line 1 > > My application team is looking for time zone support. Any thought please. > > > TIMESTAMP columns are limited to the valid UNIX timestamps (and subject to > the year 2038 problem) but adjust to the time_zone variable (global or > session) automatically. > DATETIME can store much more but you will need to store/retrieve > consistent values with functions like CONVERT_TZ. > > By the way.. the SQL 99 is a copy of a book and not necessarily > implemented in MariaDB. > Please follow the documentation listed at https://mariadb.com/kb/en/ > mariadb/documentation/ for what is existing in MariaDB. > > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss > Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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