datetime function - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hi Guy's,

 Noticing an issue with the datetime funciton when being used with
'epoch', it is giving different results then before..


select version();
                               version
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 PostgreSQL 7.1.2 on i386-unknown-freebsd4.3, compiled by GCC 2.95.3
(1 row)

set time zone 'GMT';
SET VARIABLE
select datetime('epoch') + "interval"('0 seconds');
        ?column?
------------------------
 1970-01-01 00:00:00+00
(1 row)

set time zone 'PST8PDT';
SET VARIABLE
select datetime('epoch') + "interval"('0 seconds');
        ?column?
------------------------
 1969-12-31 16:00:00-08
(1 row)

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select version();
                               version
---------------------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on i386-unknown-freebsd4.3, compiled by GCC 2.95.3
(1 row)

set time zone 'GMT';
SET VARIABLE
select datetime('epoch') + "interval"('0 seconds');
      ?column?
---------------------
 1970-01-01 00:00:00    <== what's happened to the offset , i.e. "+00" ?
(1 row)

set time zone 'PST8PDT';
SET VARIABLE
select datetime('epoch') + "interval"('0 seconds');
      ?column?
---------------------
 1970-01-01 00:00:00    <== why is this not "1969-12-31 16:00:00-08" ?

(1 row)


 Chris Bowlby,
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