On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 05:49:21PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> I think there is plenty of application for timestamps that actually
> include (civil) time zones. Calendaring, for example. If I make an
> appointment to see a friend at 2PM some months from now, it's
> understood that that's in the local time zone; if some lawmakers take
> it on themselves to fool with the DST rules before then, we're still
> going to meet at 2PM local time. And it'd be useful to know whether
> that now conflicts with appointments defined by reference to some
> other zone, so the easy way of "assume it's all local time" doesn't
> cut it.
I wrote a blog about this:
https://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2017.html#September_27_2017
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