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From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Reference to UT1
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Msg-id 20160622205146.GA17994@momjian.us
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In response to Reference to UT1  (Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com>)
Responses Re: Reference to UT1  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Mon, Jun  6, 2016 at 03:53:41PM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> Hi
>
> The manual[1] says "Technically,PostgreSQL uses UT1 rather than UTC
> because leap seconds are not handled."  I'm certainly no expert on
> this stuff but it seems to me that we are using POSIX time[2] or Unix
> time, not UT1.

Based on this report I have removed mentions of UT1 from our docs in the
attached patch, which I would like to apply to 9.6.

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