Re: Reference to UT1 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Reference to UT1
Date
Msg-id 20160628174950.GA23250@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Reference to UT1  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 04:51:46PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 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.

Patch applied.  Thanks for the report.

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