Re: Timezone strangeness

On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:55, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Rod Taylor wrote:
> > Note the first timezone change is taken, but the second one is ignored.
> > rbt=3D# set time zone est;
> > SET
> > rbt=3D# select * from t;
> >           col
> > ------------------------
> >  2003-06-03 18:30:25+00
> > (1 row)
>
> Are you certain "est" is a legitimate time zone?

I didn't think to look to see if it was valid as there wasn't an error
reported (so I had mistakenly assumed it was).

Anyway, right you are.. The full zone name is required to function as
expected.  To function in an unexpected fashion, anything is accepted :)

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Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>

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