Re: [GENERAL] Timezone issue - Is it me or is this a massive bug?

2008-06-23 Thread Collin Peters
I have read the post and understand the issue. I am wondering why this is not mentioned in the documentation. Or even worse why the PostgreSQL documentation explicitly lists all the timezones correctly in table B-4

Re: [GENERAL] Timezone issue - Is it me or is this a massive bug?

2008-06-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Collin Peters escribió: I have read the post and understand the issue. I am wondering why this is not mentioned in the documentation. Or even worse why the PostgreSQL documentation explicitly lists all the timezones correctly in table B-4

Re: [GENERAL] Timezone issue - Is it me or is this a massive bug?

2008-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Collin Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have read the post and understand the issue. I am wondering why this is not mentioned in the documentation. It is. Per http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/datatype-datetime.html#DATATYPE-TIMEZONES One should be wary that the POSIX-style time

[GENERAL] Timezone issue - Is it me or is this a massive bug?

2008-06-20 Thread Collin Peters
I have a server of which the OS timezone is set to Pacific time (currently -7). I run the following query on it SELECT now(), now() AT TIME ZONE 'GMT+10:00', now() AT TIME ZONE 'GMT-10:00', now() AT TIME ZONE 'Australia/Melbourne' I would expect this to return: * column 1 - the current time

Re: [GENERAL] Timezone issue - Is it me or is this a massive bug?

2008-06-20 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Friday 20 June 2008 1:19 pm, Collin Peters wrote: I have a server of which the OS timezone is set to Pacific time (currently -7). I run the following query on it SELECTnow(), now() AT TIME ZONE 'GMT+10:00', now() AT TIME ZONE 'GMT-10:00', now() AT TIME ZONE 'Australia/Melbourne'