Re: Unexpected date conversion results - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Unexpected date conversion results
Date
Msg-id 2555134.1763772908@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Unexpected date conversion results  (Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>)
Responses Re: Unexpected date conversion results
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Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> writes:
> I dug into the git history, and it has been like that since commit b3506006b564
> in 2002 (way before version 9.x).  That commit fixed a bug that returned ten
> time the correct reault (but still offset from the UTC epoch).

I didn't bisect, but I get this in 9.1.24:

regression=# set timezone = 'America/Los_Angeles';
SET
regression=# select to_timestamp(extract(epoch from current_date));
      to_timestamp
------------------------
 2025-11-21 00:00:00-08
(1 row)

and this in 9.2.24:

regression=# set timezone = 'America/Los_Angeles';
SET
regression=# select to_timestamp(extract(epoch from current_date));
      to_timestamp
------------------------
 2025-11-20 16:00:00-08
(1 row)

            regards, tom lane



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