| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Rainer Mager <rmager(at)vgkk(dot)com>, <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: timestamps cannot be created without time zones |
| Date: | 2001-08-24 15:47:06 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0108241744180.677-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Bruce Momjian writes:
> Let me see if I follow here. If I am in the Eastern timezone and enter
> a time for 9pm, 1/1/1850, and someone else in the Central timezone
> enters the same time, if I look at the two dates from the Eastern
> timezone I will see mine as 9pm and the other as 10pm?
That's exactly what happens, only that the central time would probably
show 8pm.
> Wow, I wonder if that is bad?
Depends on the application. I do wonder how the backend gets to know the
time zone from the front end. export PGTZ seems to do that, but not
export TZ, which is the standard variable.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
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