Re: Are we backwards on the sign of timezones?

From: "Dan Langille" <dan(at)langille(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Are we backwards on the sign of timezones?
Date: 2003-07-05 00:58:17
Message-ID: 3F05EA69.20820.6F7AEAFF@localhost
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On 3 Jul 2003 at 13:18, Tom Lane wrote:

> Comments?

Now that my NZ server is up and running:

template1=# select now();
now
-------------------------------
2003-07-05 12:47:15.444535+12

That doesn't look backwards to me. Perhaps I don't understand the
problem. After rereading your original post:

Local time is equal to UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) plus
the time zone displacement,

In the above, the local time is 2003-07-05 12:47:15.444535. UTC
would be 2003-07-05 00:47:15.444535. To which we add +12 hours to
get local time. That appears to be consistent with the SQL99 spec.
--
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/

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