On 19.04.19 15:36, Dave Cramer wrote:
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> On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 at 13:19, Philippe Marschall <pm@netcetera.ch
> <mailto:pm@netcetera.ch>> wrote:
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> On 17.04.19 19:10, Dave Cramer wrote:
> > Not everyone agrees with WITH TIMEZONE qnd it doesn't help that the
> > server does not store the timezone
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> It is my understanding the server converts to UTC when storing and
> returns UTC.
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> Yes, so the problem becomes what Timezone should we convert it to ? The
> server timezone, or the client timezone?
I don't think we should do conversion. To me JDBC in an interface to the
database, it exposes the database functionality, behavior and semantics.
I personally expect JDBC to return what the database returns. If I want
to have it converted to something else then I have to do that with the
semantics I want.
Java 8 Date Time types allow us to do exactly this.
Cheers
Philippe
