On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:33 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 06:07:38PM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote: > Hello > > > 2013/12/17 Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com> > > > > > 2013/12/17 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> > > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > > Yeah, I think a constructor should allow a text timezone. > > Yes. I think a numeric timezone parameter is about 99% useless, > and if you do happen to need that behavior you can just cast the > numeric to text no? > > > yes, it is possible. Although fully numeric API is much more consistent. > > > > I was wrong - there are timezones with minutes like Iran = '1:30'; > > so int in hours is bad type - so only text is probably best
I think India is the big non-integer timezone offset country: