From: | "Collin Peters" <cadiolis(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Question about "AT TIME ZONE" |
Date: | 2006-12-05 20:29:26 |
Message-ID: | df01c91b0612051229n21d98f49pd353779a6316b800@mail.gmail.com |
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The following is taken from section 9.9.3 of the help docs
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Examples (supposing that the local time zone is PST8PDT):
SELECT TIMESTAMP '2001-02-16 20:38:40' AT TIME ZONE 'MST';
Result: 2001-02-16 19:38:40-08
SELECT TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE '2001-02-16 20:38:40-05' AT TIME ZONE 'MST';
Result: 2001-02-16 18:38:40
The first example takes a time stamp without time zone and interprets
it as MST time (UTC-7), which is then converted to PST (UTC-8) for
display. The second example takes a time stamp specified in EST
(UTC-5) and converts it to local time in MST (UTC-7).
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In the first example it says it is converted to PST "for display". In
the second example it is not converted to PST for display. Does this
mean that if a timestamp *with* a timezone is specified, and it also
includes "AT TIME ZONE", that it is not converted to PST "for display"
at the end?
I just want to make sure that these two examples perform completely
different tasks. Essentially the first item:
SELECT TIMESTAMP '2001-02-16 20:38:40' AT TIME ZONE 'MST';
And this:
SELECT TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE '2001-02-16 20:38:40-07' AT TIME ZONE 'PST';
are the exact same thing.
Kind of confusing.
Regards,
Collin
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