Re: How to store the time zone with a timestamp

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:25:22PM +0100, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:18:04PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > BTW, if you wanted a more integrated solution, you could build a custom
> > type that would store the timestamp info. There's a good chance such
> > code would end up being what's used in the server as the official type,
> > too.
>
> Well, I wrote a module for storing arbitrary tags with base types. One
> of the uses would be for a timestamp that remembers the timezone. I
> havn't received all that much feedback on it which leads me to conclude
> timestamps-remebering-timezones are not a heavily requested feature.
> It's probably on the same level as the ENUM suggested a while ago.
> Interesting, but not enough to get it included into core.
>
> http://svana.org/kleptog/pgsql/taggedtypes.html
>
> That said, I'd love for a variation of this to be included since I
> beleive it has a lot of applications not thought of yet. If user-types
> could define their own typmod values, that'd make it complete.

Wow, that's damn cool and useful. You should put it on pgFoundry (at
least as a project that links back to your site) so people can find it
there.
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