Re: Set timezone in ODBC

Unfortunately I'm not doing the ODBC piece, but I had suggested that.
Maybe they just don't know how to issue "set timezone" through an ODBC
interface? Any thoughts on that?

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Eckermann [mailto:jeff_eckermann(at)yahoo(dot)com]
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 7:56 AM
To: Walker, Jed S
Cc: pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [ODBC] Set timezone in ODBC

--- Greg Campbell <greg(dot)campbell(at)us(dot)michelin(dot)com>
wrote:

> Curious,
> I did a brief experiment on the PostgreSQL server with psql without
> ODBC inverviening .
> Something like
> SET TIME ZONE INTERVAL '08:00' HOUR TO MINUTE; SELECT
> CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AS TEST_TIME; SET TIME ZONE DEFAULT; SELECT
> CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AS TEST_TIME;
>
> It did return timestamps that were marked as 8 hrs.
> different.
>
> I am wondering if ODBC is just not passing the adjusted time. I don't
> know why it would be biased in one direction (message to server being
> adjusted, but data coming back not ???) Is your field of 'timestamp
> with timezone' or just timestamp?

Maybe this is just too blindingly obvious, but I haven't seen it
mentioned in this thread: why not just issue a "set timezone" command
from your client session? Has that been tried, and with failure?

>
>
>
>
> Walker, Jed S wrote:
>
> > We don't want to change the timezone on the
> server.
> >
> > We could have the client send the timestamp with
> timezone but without
> > setting the time (using set timezone to) then they
> get back the
> > timestamps in the server timezone which they don't
> want.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Campbell
> [mailto:greg(dot)campbell(at)us(dot)michelin(dot)com]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 10:15 AM
> > To: Walker, Jed S
> > Cc: pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
> > Subject: Re: [ODBC] Set timezone in ODBC
> >
> > To configure a server for a default timezone, see
> the PostgreSQL admin
> > guide for the PostgreSql configuration file, the
> TIMEZONE parameter.
> >
> >
> >
> > Walker, Jed S wrote:
> >
> >
> >>We have just setup our first PostgreSQL system. We
> have a vendor
> >
> > product
> >
> >>that connects via ODBC. That vendor product needs
> to talk in a
> >
> > different
> >
> >>timezone than our database server is at. How can
> you specify a
> >
> > timezone
> >
> >>to use through ODBC?
> >>
> >>
> >> Jed S. Walker
> >>
> >
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