Re: Timestamp with and without timezone conversion confusion.

From: Karsten Hilbert <Karsten(dot)Hilbert(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Timestamp with and without timezone conversion confusion.
Date: 2013-10-02 11:19:20
Message-ID: 20131002111920.GG4431@hermes.hilbert.loc
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:49:38PM +1300, Tim Uckun wrote:

> >The reason for that is that in PostgreSQL there is no time zone
> information stored along with a "timestamp with time zone",
> it is stored in UTC.

A better name might perhaps been "timezone aware timestamp".

Karsten
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