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To: Jayadevan M <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Doubt on pg_timezone_names and pg_timezone_abbrevs
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:58:11 -0700
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On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM Jayadevan M <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 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' ;
>
Since the S and T are non-location specific you get 26 different timezone
abbreviations to choose from. That wasn't enough for the world. So IST is
non-unique; and for historical reasons Ireland (Eire, which contains
Dublin) is given default priority.
> 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
>
Suggest you adapt to using ISO names (the name column above) for timezones;
which are long enough and location-specific enough to be unique. In your
case, pick your preferred spelling of Calcutta I suppose.
There is a way to get a different interpretation for IST to be recognized
but I'd have to find it or wait for others to chime in.
David J.
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