Re: BUG #16472: Bug in to_timestamp ? - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #16472: Bug in to_timestamp ?
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Msg-id 385758.1591028291@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #16472: Bug in to_timestamp ?  (Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru>)
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Alexander Korotkov <a.korotkov@postgrespro.ru> writes:
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 1:38 PM PG Bug reporting form
> <noreply@postgresql.org> wrote:
>> I execute a update SQL as below :
>> update Table1 set date1=to_timestamp('19790701000000', 'YYYYMMDDHH24MISS')
>> where .....
>> date1 is a timestamp type column, the result in DB is  1979-07-01 01:00:00
>> where come from that '01' hour ?

> It's likely related to clock shift in your timezone.

July 1 would be an odd time for a seasonal DST shift ... but quickly
thumbing through the tzdata files, I see one for Asia/Taipei on that date
in 1979.  So I guess that the OP is using that zone, and the answer to the
question is "midnight of that date did not exist in Taiwan; their clocks
shifted forward from 23:59:59 to 01:00:00".

            regards, tom lane



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