Re: Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Christopher Browne
Subject Re: Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time
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Msg-id m3sm32t80h.fsf@knuth.knuth.cbbrowne.com
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In response to Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time  (Együd Csaba <csegyud@vnet.hu>)
Responses Re: Best practices: Handling Daylight-saving time
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csegyud@vnet.hu (Együd Csaba) wrote:
> I'd like to ask your opininon about how to handle DST on an 7/24 system.
> Where should it be handled: on the server side or on the client side? And
> how could I (at all could I???) make it transparent?

Don't use DST.

Use GMT/UTC.

That makes the issue go away.
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