please help me get off this list RE: Getting number of days in a month

please help me get off this list

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross J. Reedstrom [SMTP:reedstrm(at)wallace(dot)ece(dot)rice(dot)edu]
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 9:59 AM
> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Getting number of days in a month
>
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 10:26:17AM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 09:24:36AM +0200, Guillaume Perréal wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks, I rewrote my function to solve my problem.
> > >
> > > In fact, the problem is that ('2000-10-01'::datetime + '1
> month'::interval)
> > > gives '2000-10-31' instead of '2000-11-01'.
> > > I think it's a bug, isn't it?
> >
> > It's our old friend daylight savings changeover:
> >
> > rfb=# select ('2000-10-01'::datetime + '1 month'::interval);
> > ?column?
> > ------------------------
> > 2000-10-31 23:00:00+00
> > (1 row)
> > ^^
> >
> > 1 hour less because going from summer -> winter (For me BST->GMT)
> >
>
> Right - and it's 'fixable' by setting your timezone to GMT before doing
> the
> math:
>
> reedstrm=> set timezone to 'GMT';
> SET VARIABLE
> reedstrm=> select ('2000-10-01'::datetime + '1 month'::interval);
> ?column?
> ----------------------------
> Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 2000 GMT
> (1 row)
>
> Hmm, now that I've said that, I discover that I can't set my timezone back
> to the previous behavior: if I set the timezone to anything, it treats
> all date values as being in that timezone, and the math just works,
> even when I set it to 'unknown'. Hmm, I'll have to test 7.0beta5 for this.
>
> Ross
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> Ross J. Reedstrom, Ph.D., <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
> NSBRI Research Scientist/Programmer
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