Re: time stamp - Mailing list pgsql-admin

To be fair, you really ought to ask this question:

Suppose user A sets up a conference call with users B, C, and D, who each
live in:

    A: Tokyo
    B: Denver
    C: San Diego
    D: New York

The meeting is to occur at 1:00 PM tokyo time.  (Never mind for now whether
that makes any sense.)

Trick questions:

1.  How does the database store the time of the meeting?
2.  What if user D is traveling to London at the time of the meeting?  She
changes her locale on her computer to London time, will the database show
her the correct time?

However you solve this problem, it's not going to be by naively storing user
A's local time with no time zone information and leaving it at that.

;-)

// m

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Felipe Nascimento
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 1:32 PM
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] time stamp


I used to manage a database without Time Zone. Now I use PG, and this
concept of using Time Zone in date data is new to me. I find it intersting,
but I have the following doubt:
let's imagine that my server resides in Time Zone(TZ) "-00", and one user
resides in TZ "-05". Let´s say that 12p.m. to the user is 3p.m. to the
server, on the same day.
Let's say that the user inputs a date for a business meeting: "2002-06-20
12:00:00". The server will save "2002-06-20 12:00:00-00"?? If my application
sends an e-mail for the user reminding him of the meeting one hour befor it,
the server will send that email at 11 o'clock (server time) that is 2
o'clock to the user, that means, after the meeting.
My question is: how to manage this so I can send the email to the user at
his 11 o'clock (8 a.m. server time)???
Tks
Felipe Nascimento


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: quinta-feira, 20 de junho de 2002 13:49
To: nimeshb
Cc: Brian McCane; pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] time stamp


"nimeshb" <nimeshb@syscon-intl.com> writes:
> CREATE TABLE test (ts TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE) ; doesn't work.
Oh?  I get
test72=# CREATE TABLE test (ts TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE) ;
CREATE
test72=# insert into test values(now());
INSERT 803798 1
test72=# insert into test values('2002-02-22 12:34:56');
INSERT 803799 1
test72=# select * from test;
             ts
----------------------------
 2002-06-20 12:46:47.030269
 2002-02-22 12:34:56
(2 rows)
test72=# select version();
                            version
---------------------------------------------------------------
 PostgreSQL 7.2.1 on hppa-hp-hpux10.20, compiled by GCC 2.95.3
(1 row)


                        regards, tom lane
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