I *think* i do this in Redhat Linux.
TZ='Asia/Calcutta'; export TZ
Yeah *MANY A TIMES* i felt like raising this
issue that IST is indian standard times not
Israel Standart Time as mentioned in
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=0&file=x11875.html
hmm ignore my ignorance , i am not knowledgable
abt timezones.
regds
mallah.
On Friday 02 May 2003 8:46 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rajesh Kumar Mallah <mallah@trade-india.com> writes:
> > tradein_clients=# SELECT timeofday();
> > +-------------------------------------+
> >
> > | timeofday |
> >
> > +-------------------------------------+
> >
> > | Fri May 02 20:34:13.634355 2003 IST |
> >
> > +-------------------------------------+
>
> Hmm. Looking in datetime.c, I see that Postgres believes "IST" is
> Israel Standard Time, GMT+2. So that explains the discrepancy,
> if you think it's GMT+5.5. What exactly are you doing to set the
> system timezone?
>
> regards, tom lane
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