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From Karsten Hilbert
Subject Re: Timestamp with and without timezone conversion confusion.
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Msg-id 20131002111920.GG4431@hermes.hilbert.loc
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In response to Re: Timestamp with and without timezone conversion confusion.  (Tim Uckun <timuckun@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:49:38PM +1300, Tim Uckun wrote:

> >The reason for that is that in PostgreSQL there is no time zone
> information stored along with a "timestamp with time zone",
> it is stored in UTC.

A better name might perhaps been "timezone aware timestamp".

Karsten
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