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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: chrisj <chrisj.wood@sympatico.ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Assigning a timestamp without timezone to a timestamp
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:26:32 -0400
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chrisj <chrisj.wood@sympatico.ca> writes:
> It works fine with fixed offset timezones, but when I try it with EST5EDT
> I get the following:
> ERROR:  invalid input syntax for type timestamp with time zone: "2006-07-13
> 09:20:00 EST5EDT"

Try it with "America/New_York".  The datetime parser seems to think that
a timezone name shouldn't contain digits ... which is bogus, but we'll
have to think carefully about how to improve it ...

			regards, tom lane



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