From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Louise Catherine <r1c4n@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: AGE function
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:13:01 -0400
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Louise Catherine <r1c4n@yahoo.com> writes:
> When I execute this statement :
> select AGE(TO_DATE('20041101','yyyymmdd'),
> TO_DATE('19991201','yyyymmdd'))
> at postgre 7.3.3, the result :
> age
> ---------------------
> 4 years 11 mons 1 day
With TimeZone set to 'Asia/Jakarta' on a Linux machine, I can reproduce
that behavior in 7.3.* but not 7.4 and later. I believe this is the
relevant change:
2004-12-01 14:57 tgl
* src/backend/utils/adt/timestamp.c (REL7_4_STABLE): Fix
timestamptz_age() to do calculation in local timezone not GMT, per
bug 1332.
and here is a link to the discussion that prompted the change:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2004-12/msg00013.php
regards, tom lane
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