=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jukka_V=E4=E4n=E4nen?= <jukka.vaananen@batman.jypoly.fi> writes:
> using postgresql 7.3.1:
> # select current_timestamp,date_part('timezone_hour',current_timestamp);
> timestamptz | date_part
> -------------------------------+-----------
> 2003-09-16 10:51:58.228489+03 | -3
> (1 row)
> I would expect date_part('timezone_hour') to return 3. But it returns -3
> instead. Why so?
Because someone got it backwards ;-). We have reversed the sign of this
result for 7.4.
regards, tom lane