Re: valid timezone abbreviations/displaying timezone value?

[elein <elein(at)varlena(dot)com>]

I've added a link to the valid postgresql timezones table
in the latest issue of General Bits and also made it available
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--elein

On Friday 16 May 2003 15:04, Aditya wrote:
> I have a timestamp column that I'd like to display in a user-defined timezone
> with:
> 
>   select updated at time zone $TZONE from page;
> 
> where $TZONE is a PG-valid timezone abbreviations. 
> 
> 1) Does anyone have a list of valid timezone abbreviations?
> 
> 2) Is there a way to get the timezone to display in the above select for each
> row returned? (it only shows if I don't specify the time zone)
> 
> In general, "at time zone foo" seems to be a rather poorly documented command
> -- the only mention I can easily find is in the _Practical Postgresql_ book,
> where it says "PostgreSQL supports the use of all ISO standard time zone
> abbreviations" (p.76). That would be helpful if I could find a list of
> standard ISO time zone abbrevs -- Google yielded
> http://greenwichmeantime.com/info/timezone.htm which doesn't have abbrevs for
> all timezones and PG doesn't seem to accept timezones in 'GMT+X' notation...
> 
> Thanks for any help or pointers,
> Adi
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