On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:11:29AM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> So if I understand correctly, a timestamp_tz is ...
... stored as UTC in the backend
... sent to clients shifted by whatever timezone was
requested by the client by one of several mechanisms:
- "set timezone to ..." used by the client
- "select ... at time zone ..." used by the client
- the server timezone if neither of the above is used
> according to the host's timezone configuration? For example if I
> travel with my server and cross several timezones, my timestamp_tz's
> will display a different time (provided I run the tzselect utility in
> Linux) ?
Yes, unless the client tells the server to send them shifted
to a different timezone (see above).
Karsten
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