Re: Timestamp docs weirdness

Hello Christopher,

Wednesday, October 22, 2003, 10:21:02 AM, you wrote:

>>>What in the heck is 'zulu', 'allballs' or 'z'???
>>
>>
>> 'allballs' probably alludes to the visual appearance of '00:00:00'. 'z'
>> and 'zulu' should be time zones equivalent (or similar?) to UTC or GMT
>> ((US?) military jargon).

> But they don't work...

Only the combination of both doesn't work:
template1=# select 'allballs'::timetz;
timetz
-------------
00:00:00+00
(1 row)

template1=# select '0:0:0 z'::timetz;
timetz
-------------
00:00:00+00
(1 row)

template1=# select '0:0:0 zulu'::timetz;
timetz
-------------
00:00:00+00
(1 row)

template1=# select 'allballs'::timetz;
timetz
-------------
00:00:00+00
(1 row)

template1=# select 'allballs z'::timetz;
ERROR: Bad time external representation 'allballs z'
template1=# select 'allballs zulu'::timetz;
ERROR: Bad time external representation 'allballs zulu'

Your problem is using 'time' which doesn't know time zones.

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