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From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>
To: Robert Burgholzer <rburghol@vt.edu>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Timestamp Shifts when calling to_timestamp(extract (epoch from timestamp))
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 17:58:35 -0600
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On May 12, 2015, at 5:49 PM, Robert Burgholzer <rburghol@vt.edu> wrote:
> 
> to_timestamp translates into the local TZ Always.

No, it translates to UTC, but timestamps by default display in your local timezone. Look at your example, the result of to_timestamp is midnight UTC as expected, which in your time zone is 19:00.

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