Re: Date manipulation - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Hadley Willan
Subject Re: Date manipulation
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Msg-id 1082353340.1202.1.camel@io.sol.deeper.co.nz
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In response to Re: Date manipulation  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Yes, I'm not worried about an exact DST.  The date items are stored with Timestamp Timezone.

Thanks to everybody for your technical tips and help.

Hadley

On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 16:42, Tom Lane wrote:
Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to> writes:
>   Hadley Willan <hadley.willan@deeperdesign.co.nz> wrote:
>> dateRange = ''now''::date - ( 7 * '1 week'::interval );

> If you actually are using a date you don't have to use an interval as
> the number subtracted will be in days. So you could just use
> current_date - (7 * 7);

Good point --- in fact, that's probably exactly what Hadley wants,
because "date - integer" will yield a date and not a timestamp.  The
form involving interval will do odd things when crossing a DST
transition.
		regards, tom lane

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