Re: Postgres and timezones - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Albe Laurenz
Subject Re: Postgres and timezones
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Msg-id A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B537D44E3@ntex2010i.host.magwien.gv.at
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In response to Postgres and timezones  (Steve Rogerson <steve.pg@yewtc.demon.co.uk>)
Responses Re: Postgres and timezones  (Steve Rogerson <steve.pg@yewtc.demon.co.uk>)
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Steve Rogerson wrote:
> Hi, this is wrong:
> 
> # select to_char('2016-01-20 00:00'::timestamp at time zone 'Europe/Lisbon',
> 'TZ');
>  to_char
> ---------
>  GMT
> (1 row)
> 
> 
> It should be WET, "Western European Time". Is there something I'm doing wrong?

That query will always give you your local timezone.

Here in Austria I get:

test=> select to_char('2016-01-20 00:00'::timestamp at time zone 'Asia/Yerevan', 'TZ');
┌─────────┐
│ to_char │
├─────────┤
│ CET     │
└─────────┘
(1 row)

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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