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To: Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
Cc: Jeff Boes <jboes@qtm.net>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Timezone conversion 
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Comments: In-reply-to Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com>
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:08:42 -0500
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com> writes:
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Jeff Boes wrote:
>> Is there a straightforward way to change the display of a time to another
>> timezone?  For example, my server's environment is EST (-0500); I want to
>> convert timestamps for display in PST (-0800).

> I think you might be able to use "AT TIME ZONE" to do what you want.  I
> think it's described in Chapter 6 of the user's guide.

Also, there's always the straightforward approach: temporarily change
the TIMEZONE variable ;-)

I believe AT TIME ZONE is new in 7.3.

			regards, tom lane