Re: Re: Bug in date_part()

Ah, I think I understand the trouble now. It's good it's fixed for
the next release. And, as predicted, I'm running in a DST zone
(/etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific)

Thanks for the quick diagnosis!

Phil

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 09:07:34PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> writes:
> >> Query to reproduce the bug (7.0.3):
> >> edge=# select date_part('dow','4/1/2001'::date)::int4;
> >> ----------
> >> 6
>
> > I'm not seeing this on my 7.0.2 RPM installation, or on my from-cvs
> > current sources (dow for April 1 comes up as zero, as you would expect).
>
> I get the right answer from current sources, and the wrong one on 7.0.2.
> It's ye olde date-to-timestamp-off-an-hour-at-DST-boundary problem.
> Are you not running in a USA timezone?
>
> regards, tom lane

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