Re: Time Zone Query

From: Blake Crosby <me(at)blakecrosby(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Time Zone Query
Date: 2001-01-05 03:12:47
Message-ID: 5.0.2.1.2.20010105140727.01a4a2a8@home.samurai.com
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At 12:09 PM 4/01/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>No, the times in the database are all GMT. They will get *displayed*
>with some particular timezone offset, as determined by the TIMEZONE
>SET variable.
>
>You have to set TIMEZONE to your local timezone if you want dates
>displayed in something other than the server's default timezone.
>Perhaps what you are really looking for is the PGTZ environment
>variable. If you keep PGTZ set in your environment, libpq will issue
>the SET TIMEZONE command for you during connection startup.
>
> regards, tom lane

After further investigation it turns out I am looking for a timestamp and
timetz hybrid. Possibly timestamptz ? :)

My solution has been to store the timezone offset in a int4 field, then
apply that offset when selecting data from my timestamp type fields.

Regards,
Blake Crosby

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