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Subject: Re: Time AT TIME ZONE: false result using offset instead of time zone name
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:24:15 -0800 (PST)
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Adrian Klaver-3 wrote
>>On 02/10/2014 11:54 PM, rawi wrote:
>>[...]
>> SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AT TIME ZONE 'UTC+01';
>>
>> timezone
>> timestamp without time zone
>> ---------------------------
>> 2014-02-11 06:23:07.043479
>>
>> !!! Two hours earlyer, one hour to the east (Azores), not to the west of
>> Greenwich.
>> To get my time one hour west from Greenwich I have to ask:
>>
>> SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AT TIME ZONE 'UTC-01';
>>
>> Is this inverse calculation intently?
>
> Yes.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/datatype-datetime.html#DATATYPE-TIMEZONES
>
> 8.5.3. Time Zones
>
> .. Another issue to keep in mind is that in POSIX time zone names,
> positive offsets are used for locations west of Greenwich. Everywhere
> else, PostgreSQL follows the ISO-8601 convention that positive timezone
> offsets are east of Greenwich
Oh... oh... Disconcerting... I've just learned, that even javascript is
returning negative offsets for western situated browsers...
Thank you!
Regards, Rawi
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