Problem with Day of Week

Greetings,

I notice some talk about date problems and interestingly enough planning
out an application in which I will need to be able to manipulate dates.
I notice however that there seems to be a discrepancy with the day or
week in 7.0.3

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pmhcc=# select date_part('dow','now'::timestamp);
date_part
-----------
1
(1 row)

pmhcc=# select to_char('now'::timestamp,'D');
to_char
---------
2
(1 row)

pmhcc=# select version();
version
---------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 7.0.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc egcs-2.91.66
(1 row)

pmhcc=# select now();
now
------------------------
2001-01-29 12:57:46-05
(1 row)

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Now as far as I know, Sunday is supposed to 1, so I would think that
date_part is doing something funky unless I am mis-understanding
something. I was hoping that someone might be able to shead some light
on this. Thanks.

Keith C. Perry
VCSN, Inc.
http://vcsn.com