On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:29 AM, Antti Haapala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> 2008/6/27 Tom Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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>> Well, it stores the *offset*, which is virtually useless in real-world
>> applications.
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> I haven't tested on 8.3, but on 8.2 it does not. In PostgreSQL, the datatype
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2008/6/27 Tom Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Antti Haapala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > On 25 kesä, 19:12, "Tom Tobin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Well, it stores the *offset*, which is virtually useless in real-world
> applications.
I haven't
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Antti Haapala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On 25 kesä, 19:12, "Tom Tobin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> All PostgresSQL supports in terms of *storage* is
>> a fixedtimezoneoffset, not the actual zoneinfo name; this isn't
>> very useful, and causes problems
On 25 kesä, 19:12, "Tom Tobin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All PostgresSQL supports in terms of *storage* is
> a fixedtimezoneoffset, not the actual zoneinfo name; this isn't
> very useful, and causes problems such as the above.
Actually, in PostgreSQL TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE does NOT store
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Ramiro Morales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Tom Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> I propose that the PostgresSQL backends start acting like the other
>> backends regarding time zones: they should start ignoring them
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Tom Tobin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I propose that the PostgresSQL backends start acting like the other
> backends regarding time zones: they should start ignoring them
> completely (i.e., use a plain TIMESTAMP [WITHOUT TIME ZONE], and stop
> using SET TIME
Thanks to some happy signal magic, I've come up with a
"DateTimeZoneField" that takes a "time_zone" argument; time_zone can
be a tzinfo instance or a field lookup to a zoneinfo string (e.g.,
"America/Chicago"). The field can then consume any sort of datetime
object, and will always spit back a
