Thread: extract(timezone_hour) problem
I understand that internally, Postgres converts timestamps to a GMT format and then redisplays them in the local timezone. cf: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=Pine.LNX.4.30.0110100104320.672-100000%40peter.localdomain&oe=UTF-8&output=gplain However --> doesn't this make the extract(timezone_hour...) function basically useless? May as well call it "get_local_timezone_hour". How can one extract the timezone offset of a timestamp w/timezone (ie. get the intended behaviour of the extract call) ??? blackcherry=# SELECT extract(timezone_hour from TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE '2001-02-16 20:38:40-05'); date_part ----------- 8 (1 row) blackcherry=# SELECT extract(timezone_hour from TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE '2001-02-16 20:38:40-00'); date_part ----------- 8 (1 row) -Dave _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail