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, maj 10, 2013 at 10:34:02 +0200, Karsten Düsterloh wrote:
> Under Pg 8.3, we used the timestamp
> 0001-01-01 00:00:00+01
> as an easy-to-remember marker for 'dunno, but predates any usual
> business dates' for fields of type timestamp with time zone.
Why didn't you use "-infinity" for this?
> Any ideas?
> Is this a known bug (I didn't find), maybe fixed in 9.2?
It's not a bug. Berlin timezone that far away has such not-round offset.
In time zone database you can find:
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Europe/Berlin 0:53:28 - LMT 1893 Apr
1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 24 2:00
1:00 SovietZone CE%sT 1946
1:00 Germany CE%sT 1980
1:00 EU CE%sT
Best regards,
depesz