Re: Timezone issue - Is it me or is this a massive bug? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Timezone issue - Is it me or is this a massive bug?
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Msg-id 20080623161039.GA4254@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Timezone issue - Is it me or is this a massive bug?  ("Collin Peters" <cadiolis@gmail.com>)
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Collin Peters escribió:
> I have read the post and understand the issue.  I am wondering why
> this is not mentioned in the documentation.  Or even worse why the
> PostgreSQL documentation explicitly lists all the timezones correctly
> in table B-4 http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/datetime-keywords.html#DATETIME-TIMEZONE-INPUT-TABLE
>
> In that table it has Melbourne, Australia as
> LIGT    +10:00    Melbourne, Australia
>
> But according to the post you linked to that is not correct... I must
> instead specifiy -10:00.  Should the documentation not note this?

Absolutely.  Care to submit a patch?

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