Re: timestamp with/without time zone - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: timestamp with/without time zone
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0106202331020.725-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: timestamp with/without time zone  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>)
Responses Re: timestamp with/without time zone  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Thomas Lockhart writes:

> SQL9x "timestamp" has no notion of time zones. PostgreSQL "timestamp"
> does.

AFAICT, it does not.  The value is stored in UTC (more or less) and is
converted to the local time zone for display.  But a data type is defined
in terms of storage, not display.  In fact, if you use a language binding
that converts PostgreSQL values directly to native data types, then the
time zone never appears.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter



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