Re: timeofday() and now() issue..

On Friday 02 May 2003 8:46 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah(at)trade-india(dot)com> writes:
> > tradein_clients=# SELECT timeofday();
> > +-------------------------------------+
> >
> > | timeofday |
> >
> > +-------------------------------------+
> >
> > | Fri May 02 20:34:13.634355 2003 IST |
> >
> > +-------------------------------------+
>
> Hmm. Looking in datetime.c, I see that Postgres believes "IST" is
> Israel Standard Time, GMT+2. So that explains the discrepancy,
> if you think it's GMT+5.5. What exactly are you doing to set the
> system timezone?

Tom

Do i have to only change POS(8) to POS(22)
in line below in datetime.c ?

{"ist", TZ, POS(8)}, /* Israel */

so that IST is interpreted as Indian Time Zone?

so some other places too ?

Regds
mallah.

>
> regards, tom lane

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