| From: | "Billy G(dot) Allie" <Bill(dot)Allie(at)mug(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Thomas A(dot) Szybist" <szybist(at)boxhill(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Thomas G(dot) Lockhart" <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, Postgres Documentation List <docs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, geek+(at)cmu(dot)edu, brook(at)trillium(dot)NMSU(dot)Edu, tih(at)hamartun(dot)priv(dot)no, rkirkpat(at)nag(dot)cs(dot)colorado(dot)edu, martin(at)biochemistry(dot)ucl(dot)ac(dot)uk, t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp, Keith Parks <emkxp01(at)mtcc(dot)demon(dot)co(dot)uk>, dlw(at)seavme(dot)xroads(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Last call? |
| Date: | 1998-10-25 21:35:16 |
| Message-ID: | 199810252135.QAA19640@bgalli.mug.org |
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"Thomas A. Szybist" wrote:
>
> I just gave today's (Oct 25) snapshot a try on Sparc Linux.
> Looks good except datetime. I'm getting failures due to this type
> of thing:
>
> regression=> SELECT ('today'::datetime );
> ?column?
> ----------------------------
> Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 1998 EDT
> (1 row)
>
> regression=> SELECT ('tomorrow'::datetime - '1 day'::timespan);
> ?column?
> ----------------------------
> Sun Oct 25 01:00:00 1998 EDT
> (1 row)
>
>
> I *think* this may because we're not too far into EST yet.
> Sound good?
>
This is not a failure. The date 24 hours (1 day) before 'Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 1998 EST' is 'Sun Oct 25 01:00:00 1998 EDT'. You would think it should be 'Sun Oct 25 00:00:00 1998 EST', but thanks to Daylight Savings Time that datetime does not exist :-)
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