On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:21 AM, hernan gonzalez <hgonza...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are there any plans to (is anybody working on) implement better > timezone support in postgresql > for 8.5 ? Specifically, store the timezone info -instead of just the > timestamp as UTC ? > http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Todo#Dates_and_Times
You might want to use the word "different" rather than the word "better", because the current behavior is quite useful and I think many people would be unhappy if it were to go away. I think there's also some debate about whether we want this at all. See here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg00964.php One random thought - I am not aware that we currently have a "time zone" type in which to store a time zone in. Is there any value in having such a thing vs. just using varchar? ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
