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From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
To: Steve Crawford <[email protected]>
To: PG-General Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Unexpected date conversion results
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:43:19 +0100
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 2025-11-21 at 16:38 -0800, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> > There was a time, like version 9-dot-something, when the above queries 
> > performed as expected returning midnight in the current time zone but I 
> > haven't been able to find a change document indicating this as an 
> > expected change.
> 
> I don't remember that, but as the gray content of the hair increases the 
> memory is less solid:)

I dug into the git history, and it has been like that since commit b3506006b564
in 2002 (way before version 9.x).  That commit fixed a bug that returned ten
time the correct reault (but still offset from the UTC epoch).

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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