Re: Assigning a timestamp without timezone to a timestamp

Thanks for the heads up, I definately need EST5EDT

you saved me twice!!

Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:06:00PM -0700, chrisj wrote:
>> If only all time zones were fixed offset timezones life would be so much
>> simpler.
>
> Indeed.
>
>> Unfortunately the main area of deployment of my app will beToronto which
>> is
>> on EDT which is not a fixed offsets timezone. I hope/assume your
>> solution
>> works with "EDT" instead of "-3", I will test it soon.
>
> Should do, although you'll need more than EDT. EDT is also fixed:
> it's UTC-4. EST5EDT isn't, though, so you could use that (you'd need
> to improve your schema, though, because you had char(3) there, and
> not all time zones are 3 characters long). But to answer your
> question, yes, it works. I just tried it.
>
> A
>
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