Re: Re: Problem with Dates

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Glen and Rosanne Eustace" <agree@godzone.net.nz>
Cc: "Christopher Sawtell" <csawtell@xtra.co.nz>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-01-26T18:00:17Z
Lists: pgsql-sql
"Glen and Rosanne Eustace" <agree@godzone.net.nz> writes:
> If some one else is running 7.1 already and can just change their
> timezone to New Zealand DT and report the results it would be great.

Well, with TZ set to NZST-12NZDT I get

regression=# select '31/12/2000'::date::timestamp;
        ?column?
------------------------
 2000-12-31 00:00:00+13
(1 row)

regression=# select '31/12/2000'::date + '365 days'::timespan;
        ?column?
------------------------
 2001-12-31 00:00:00+13
(1 row)

This looks promising but I wouldn't call it conclusive, particularly
since you're probably using a different OS than I am (I'm on HPUX
10.20).  It would be good to bang on it some more with NZ daylight
times --- as Christopher says, GMT+13 is a tad unusual.

			regards, tom lane