Thanks for the heads up, I definately need EST5EDT you saved me twice!!
Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:06:00PM -0700, chrisj wrote: >> If only all time zones were fixed offset timezones life would be so much >> simpler. > > Indeed. > >> Unfortunately the main area of deployment of my app will beToronto which >> is >> on EDT which is not a fixed offsets timezone. I hope/assume your >> solution >> works with "EDT" instead of "-3", I will test it soon. > > Should do, although you'll need more than EDT. EDT is also fixed: > it's UTC-4. EST5EDT isn't, though, so you could use that (you'd need > to improve your schema, though, because you had char(3) there, and > not all time zones are 3 characters long). But to answer your > question, yes, it works. I just tried it. > > A > > > -- > Andrew Sullivan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Information security isn't a technological problem. It's an economics > problem. > --Bruce Schneier > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Assigning-a-timestamp-without-timezone-to-a-timestamp-with-timezone-tf2373845.html#a6668169 Sent from the PostgreSQL - sql mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
