Strange behavior with timestamps - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Marc Wrubleski
Subject Strange behavior with timestamps
Date
Msg-id 3AA7E957.A1F9675@sorexsoftware.com
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Responses Re: Strange behavior with timestamps  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi all,

I am witnessing something strange with my timestamps here and I am
desperately hoping someone can explain or assist.

If I set a time using unix timestamp, it is recalled as a different time
a week different!

The following example is for illustration purposes:

pulver=# select version();
                           version
-------------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 7.0.3 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc 2.96

pulver=# update connections set starttime = timestamp 'epoch' + reltime
'984685319';
UPDATE 1
pulver=# select date_part('epoch', starttime) from connections;
 date_part
-----------
 985290119
(1 row)




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