Re: Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Együd Csaba <csegyud(at)vnet(dot)hu>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time
Date: 2005-03-11 16:31:46
Message-ID: 20050311163146.GA4774@wolff.to
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 15:25:28 +0100,
Együd Csaba <csegyud(at)vnet(dot)hu> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I'd like to ask your opininon about how to handle DST on an 7/24 system.

My advice would be to use GMT and not have to worry about DST while
collecting data. When displaying data you might convert the timestamps
to localtime if that is useful for people using the data.

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