Re: Support for DATETIMEOFFSET

2020-04-17 Thread Jeremy Morton
How could the ORM use timestamptz when that doesn't actually store both a datetime and an offset? -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) Tom Lane wrote: Jeremy Morton writes: Surely the fact that you'll lose data if you try to store a common .NET datatype with any kind of ORM (eg. EF, which

Re: Support for DATETIMEOFFSET

2020-04-17 Thread Jeremy Morton
Andreas Karlsson wrote: On 4/10/20 3:19 PM, Jeremy Morton wrote: Oh well.  Guess I keep using SQL Server then.  datetimeoffset makes it impossible for developers to make the mistake of forgetting to use UTC instead of local datetime, and for that reason alone it makes it invaluable in my

Re: Support for DATETIMEOFFSET

2020-04-12 Thread Jeremy Morton
Neil wrote: On Apr 10, 2020, at 8:19 AM, Jeremy Morton wrote: Oh well. Guess I keep using SQL Server then. datetimeoffset makes it impossible for developers to make the mistake of forgetting to use UTC instead of local datetime, and for that reason alone it makes it invaluable in my

Re: Support for DATETIMEOFFSET

2020-04-10 Thread Jeremy Morton
regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez) Andreas Karlsson wrote: On 4/10/20 10:34 AM, Jeremy Morton wrote: I've noticed that Postgres doesn't have support for DATETIMEOFFSET (or any functional equivalent data type) yet.  Is this on the roadmap to implement?  I find it a very useful data type that I use

Support for DATETIMEOFFSET

2020-04-10 Thread Jeremy Morton
I've noticed that Postgres doesn't have support for DATETIMEOFFSET (or any functional equivalent data type) yet. Is this on the roadmap to implement? I find it a very useful data type that I use all over the place in TSQL databases. -- Best regards, Jeremy Morton (Jez)