I need to determine the users time in another Time Zone for the time
now().
I tried to manually add or subtract the difference of hours between the
server timezone and the other timezone, but I have to do it for _Every_
timezone. Not only that, but I need to take Daylight Saving Time (DST)
into account for those timezones that use it.
I have tried the timezone(text,timestamp) function, but for that to work
with daylight savings time I need to know whether the DST is being
applied for this date. Ie I have to give the function either MST or MDT,
and I don't know how to switch it based on now() and the timezone.
I know that I can set the postgres timezone to a timezone defined within
Linux's /usr/share/zoneinfo, and that adjusts the local time properly
including DST.
What I want is a way to ask for the time in a different time zone and
use the Linux zoneinfo to calculate it.
Does anyone know have an idea how I can solve this problem? Would anyone
else be able to use this functionality?
Marc Wrubleski
Sorex Software Inc.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1 (403) 371-7598
