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From: Jayadevan M <[email protected]>
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Doubt on pg_timezone_names and pg_timezone_abbrevs
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 09:08:50 +0530
Message-ID: <CAFS1N4go0PyXzR=krVN1EqdBx+T_Wv+P736KxDyZ8ZGuCfi8Rw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello PG members,
I used 'IST'  in a query like this - * (timestamp_hour) at time zone 'IST'
time_ist *and did not get the expected output - timestamp in Indian
Standard Time. So I queried the 2 views that provide timezone info and did
not really understand the abbrev column.
select name, abbrev, utc_offset  from pg_timezone_names  where abbrev =
'IST'  ;
     name      | abbrev | utc_offset
---------------+--------+------------
 Eire          | IST    | 01:00:00
 Asia/Kolkata  | IST    | 05:30:00
 Asia/Calcutta | IST    | 05:30:00
 Europe/Dublin | IST    | 01:00:00


select * from pg_timezone_abbrevs where abbrev = 'IST'  ;
 abbrev | utc_offset | is_dst
--------+------------+--------
 IST    | 02:00:00   | f

This is PostgreSQL 13.15 on AWS RDS. We have the same abbrev for 4
timezones in pg_timezone_names.
Regards,
Jayadevan


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