Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com> writes:
> On 03/28/2011 08:57 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yes, I believe that's even documented somewhere. I think it will also
>> do that if the time is impossible (eg, 02:30 during a forward DST jump)
> I'd love a link to the documentation specifying that behavior. I've
> spent a while searching and have thus-far failed to locate it.
Hmm. The code is perfectly clear about it, see DetermineTimeZoneOffset:
/*
* It's an invalid or ambiguous time due to timezone transition. Prefer
* the standard-time interpretation.
*/
but right offhand I don't see any mention of ambiguous times in the
likely parts of the documentation.
regards, tom lane