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Re: timestamps cannot be created without time zones

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Rainer Mager <rmager@vgkk.com>, <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-08-24T22:22:00Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
Tom Lane writes:

> No, that is *not* what happens.  For dates outside the range known to
> the local platform's timezone database, we effectively assume that all
> times are given in GMT; no timezone corrections are applied on either
> input or output.

Oh, I wasn't sure whether Bruce meant the behaviour in 1850 exactly.

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