Re: date_trunc() in a specific time zone

On 29/10/2018 16:26, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> On 10/29/2018 04:18 PM, Vik Fearing wrote:
>> A use case that I see quite a lot of is needing to do reports and other
>> calculations on data per day/hour/etc but in the user's time zone.  The
>> way to do that is fairly trivial, but it's not obvious what it does so
>> reading queries becomes just a little bit more difficult.
>
> Hm, I am not sure if I see any major win from writing
>
> date_trunc('day', timestamptz '2001-02-16 20:38:40+00', 'Australia/Sydney')
>
> instead of
>
> date_trunc('day', timestamptz '2001-02-16 20:38:40+00' AT TIME ZONE
> 'Australia/Sydney')

Because I don't want '2001-02-16 00:00:00' (where?), I want the precise
moment in time that that represents ('2001-02-16 13:00:00+00') so I can
pull the correct rows out of my big table.

This isn't for display purposes.
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