| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> | 
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| To: | Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec> | 
| Cc: | pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: diferent timezones in the same table? | 
| Date: | 2009-09-25 14:29:24 | 
| Message-ID: | 19831.1253888964@sss.pgh.pa.us | 
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Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec> writes:
> One of the tables in a client production system has several timestamp
> with time zone fields, in one of those fields they store '1900-01-01
> 00:00:00'::timestamp with time zone where there is no valid value (a
> legacy from another dbms)...
This will be interpreted as 1900-01-01 00:00:00 in whatever timezone
is selected when you insert the value...
> timezone 'America/Guayaquil'
... and in that zone, times before 1931 are taken to be local mean
solar time, which is 5 hours and change off GMT.  See the Olsen data
files:
# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
Zone America/Guayaquil	-5:19:20 -	LMT	1890
			-5:14:00 -	QMT	1931 # Quito Mean Time
			-5:00	-	ECT	     # Ecuador Time
regards, tom lane
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