| From: | Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> |
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| To: | Steve - DND <postgres(at)digitalnothing(dot)com> |
| Cc: | postgres-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: timezone() with timeofday() converts the wrong |
| Date: | 2005-04-21 21:12:17 |
| Message-ID: | 1114117937.13303.45.camel@state.g2switchworks.com |
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On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 15:35, Steve - DND wrote:
> These attempts were run at 4/21/2005 13:15:00 -07.
> UTC: 4/21/2005 20:15:00
>
> SELECT timeofday()::timestamp
> 04/21/2005 13:15:00
>
> SELECT timezone('UTC', now())
> 04/21/2005 20:15:00 PM
>
> SELECT timezone('UTC', timeofday()::timestamp)::timestamp without time zone
> 04/21/2005 06:15:00 <- What the heck is this?!
>
>
> Why does the conversion to UTC using timeofday() go wrong? It seems like the
> conversion went 7 hours in the wrong direction. Did I forget a parameter or
> switch somewhere?
What version of PostgreSQL are you running? I seem to remember a few
versions ago the offset having the wrong sign.
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