date_trunc problems crossing DST border

From: "Matthew \"Cheetah\" Gabeler-Lee" <cheetah(at)fastcat(dot)org>
To: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: date_trunc problems crossing DST border
Date: 2004-10-31 04:54:20
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.61.0410310044410.31259@cheetah.fastcat.org
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[ PostgreSQL 7.4.5, Linux (Debian sarge) ]

The date_trunc function is making some off-by-one errors when working at
a DST border.

=> select date_trunc('minute', '2004-10-31 01:00:00-05'::timestamptz);
date_trunc
------------------------
2004-10-31 01:00:00-04

Expecting 2004-10-31 01:00:00-05, same error happens with minutes after
1 am. The timezone error also happens when truncating to minutes,
seconds, hours. I suspect this is happening because there are two
01:00:00 local time this day because of the "fall back" DST switch.

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