On 2005-06-22 10:55, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
> There has been discussion in the past on storing the time zone name
> with the timestamptz as well, though no one has implemented this yet.
The reason for this may be that time zone names (abbreviations) are not
unique. For example, "ECT" can mean "Ecuador Time" (offset -05) or
"Eastern Caribbean Time" (offset -04).
http://www.worldtimezone.com/wtz-names/timezonenames.html
cheers,
stefan
