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Pg subtracts one minute from time

From
Barry Stewart
Date:
Help!

Postgresql subtracts one minute from any times I enter into a database:

mydb=# create table test (timeval time);
CREATE
mydb=# insert into test values ('02:00');
INSERT 22313 1
mydb=# insert into test values ('03:00:00');
INSERT 22314 1
mydb=# insert into test values ('08:30');
INSERT 22315 1
mydb=# select * from test;
 timeval
----------
 01:59:00
 02:59:00
 08:29:00
(3 rows)

mydb=#


What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Barry

Re: Pg subtracts one minute from time

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Barry Stewart <bstewart@smyrnacable.net> writes:
> Postgresql subtracts one minute from any times I enter into a database:

Bizarre.  What platform are you running on?  What Postgres version?
What timezone setting (TZ or PGTZ variable) do you use?

            regards, tom lane

Re: Pg subtracts one minute from time

From
Barry Stewart
Date:
I'm using Trustix Secure Linux 1.2 (RedHat based) on a Pentium 200MMX and
Postgresql 7.02.  How do I check the TZ/PGTZ variables?  On the command
line, the date command says:

Fri Jan 12 11:37:36 EST 2001

Barry

On 2001.01.12 11:00:35 -0500 Tom Lane wrote:
> Barry Stewart <bstewart@smyrnacable.net> writes:
> > Postgresql subtracts one minute from any times I enter into a database:
>
> Bizarre.  What platform are you running on?  What Postgres version?
> What timezone setting (TZ or PGTZ variable) do you use?
>
>             regards, tom lane
>

Re: Pg subtracts one minute from time

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Barry Stewart <bstewart@smyrnacable.net> writes:
> I'm using Trustix Secure Linux 1.2 (RedHat based) on a Pentium 200MMX and
> Postgresql 7.02.

Seems like a fairly vanilla-flavored platform...  I'm baffled, to tell
you the truth.  I sent a heads-up to our date/time maven, Thomas
Lockhart, who might have an idea what's going wrong here.

> How do I check the TZ/PGTZ variables?  On the command
> line, the date command says:
> Fri Jan 12 11:37:36 EST 2001

Try "echo $TZ" at the command line.  Given that date output, I'm
guessing that you'll see "EST5EDT".  Just for grins, you might try

    export PGTZ="EST5EDT"

before starting psql, and then see if the behavior is the same or not.
Probably won't help but it'd be worth making sure.

            regards, tom lane

Re: Pg subtracts one minute from time

From
Barry Stewart
Date:
echo $TZ and echo $PGTZ both came up empty.  So I exported both as
"EST5EDT" (as root) and restarted postgresql, but still no luck.

Thanks for your prompt attention.  I'm going to give more info to Thomas,
but if you have any more suggestions, let me know.

Thanks for your prompt attention,

Barry

On 2001.01.12 11:50:20 -0500 Tom Lane wrote:
> Barry Stewart <bstewart@smyrnacable.net> writes:
> > I'm using Trustix Secure Linux 1.2 (RedHat based) on a Pentium 200MMX
> and
> > Postgresql 7.02.
>
> Seems like a fairly vanilla-flavored platform...  I'm baffled, to tell
> you the truth.  I sent a heads-up to our date/time maven, Thomas
> Lockhart, who might have an idea what's going wrong here.
>
> > How do I check the TZ/PGTZ variables?  On the command
> > line, the date command says:
> > Fri Jan 12 11:37:36 EST 2001
>
> Try "echo $TZ" at the command line.  Given that date output, I'm
> guessing that you'll see "EST5EDT".  Just for grins, you might try
>
>     export PGTZ="EST5EDT"
>
> before starting psql, and then see if the behavior is the same or not.
> Probably won't help but it'd be worth making sure.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>