Re: TODO-Item: full timezone names

Patch applied. Thanks.

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Joachim Wieland wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 12:35:44PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Joachim Wieland <joe(at)mcknight(dot)de> writes:
> > > I'm talking about the timetz type that does not carry a date. So you don't
> > > know if daylight savings time is active or not. How would you interpret the
> > > full timezone in this case without a date?
>
> > Oh, doh, I managed to miss that detail. Yeah, you're right, you need an
> > arbitrary assumption in that case. Or we could forbid these timezones
> > in timetz input, but that's probably not very helpful.
>
> After sending my last mail, I concluded that it was in fact me who missed
> something and that you were right. I came to the conclusion that you were
> talking about the fact that you can specify a timetz also with a date:
>
> template1=# select '2006-06-01 10:49 America/New_York'::timetz;
> timetz
> -------------
> 10:49:00-04
>
> This date can then be used to infer the timezone:
>
> template1=# select '2006-03-01 10:49 America/New_York'::timetz;
> timetz
> -------------
> 10:49:00-05
>
> I have updated my patch to do so. Just specifying a timestamp
>
> select '10:49 America/New_York'::timetz;
>
> does now return an error.
>
> Is that a suitable compromise?
>
>
>
> Joachim
>

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