Re: Timestamp without timezone issue

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Chip Gobs wrote:

> We recently changed from using PostgreSQL 7.4.8 to 8.2.5 and switched the
> JDBC driver to the 8.2.506 version from the  74.215 version. We are and have
> been using build 1.5.0_04-b05 of the J2SE since before our Postgres version
> change.
>
> The column obstime is of type timestamp without timezone.   After using psql
> to experiment, it appears that the   -06 is being ignored and the time in the
> value assignment part of the update statement  is being considered as
> 10:00:00 UTC instead of 16:00:00 UTC.
>
> The following did not work:
>
> TimeZone tz = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
> Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(tz);
> Timestamp timestamp = new Timestamp(timeInMillis);
> statement.setTimestamp(index, timestamp , cal);
>

Could you be more clear on why this doesn't work?  The attached test case
seems like it is working as you desire.

Kris Jurka