Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:21:20PM +0100, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
>>> Presumably this would allow timestamps to be displayed with a
>>> timezone other than the current setting.
>> *Display* of timestamptz values at arbitrary time zones is
>> already possible using the "at time zone" syntax. Retrieving
>> the "original" (as in "as inserted"), however, isn't
>> possible to date. It would certainly be very useful. In
>
> Actually, a while ago I wrote a module that would allow you to store
> arbitrary tags with normal values and it would remember them. One of
> the applications I thought of was such a type:
Hi,
thanks to all for your helpful suggestions - i have now decided to go with
changing the timezone in the postgres installation to UTC - that seems to be
the best solution to me.
thanks,
Alex