Re: timestamp with timezone and time zone name
От | Shridhar Daithankar |
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Тема | Re: timestamp with timezone and time zone name |
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Msg-id | 1654713.QxbaFkIYo5@bheem обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: timestamp with timezone and time zone name (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>) |
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Re: timestamp with timezone and time zone name
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Список | pgsql-general |
On Tuesday 07 Aug 2012 12:21:04 AM Tom Lane wrote:
> Shridhar Daithankar <ghodechhap@ghodechhap.net> writes:
> > I am wondering, why following two values result in a shift by 3.5 hours. I
> > would expect them to be identical.
> >
> > I understand that canonical time zone names could be ambiguous at times
> > but I think IST is not one of them.
>
> I don't know why you'd think that ...
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> src/timezone/tznames/Asia.txt:IST 19800 # Indian Standard Time
> src/timezone/tznames/Asia.txt:IST 7200 # Israel Standard Time
My bad.. should have searched a bit more.
>
> ... and there's some references to "Irish Summer Time" in the Olson
> database, as well. IIRC, IST was one of the primary problems that
> forced us to invent the "timezone_abbreviations" configuration
> mechanism. Try setting that to "India" if you want the 05:30 meaning.
Thanks. I will stick to the numerical offsets for uniformity.
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Regards
Shridhar
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