Re: TODO-Item: full timezone names - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: TODO-Item: full timezone names
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Msg-id 13253.1149179744@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: TODO-Item: full timezone names  (Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>)
Responses Re: TODO-Item: full timezone names  (Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>)
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Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de> writes:
> I'm talking about the timetz type that does not carry a date. So you don't
> know if daylight savings time is active or not. How would you interpret the
> full timezone in this case without a date?

Oh, doh, I managed to miss that detail.  Yeah, you're right, you need an
arbitrary assumption in that case.  Or we could forbid these timezones
in timetz input, but that's probably not very helpful.

            regards, tom lane

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