Re: Setting timezone: is it bug or intended?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Yura Sokolov <funny(dot)falcon(at)gmail(dot)com>, Susanne Ebrecht <susanne(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Setting timezone: is it bug or intended?
Date: 2011-04-26 20:49:14
Message-ID: 21802.1303850954@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> As far as how to even document this, I have no idea.

It already is documented. See
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/datatype-datetime.html#DATATYPE-TIMEZONES
specifically the point that POSIX zone names have the opposite sign
convention from ISO-8601.

The great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from ;-)

regards, tom lane

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