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From: Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@gmail.com>
To: rawi <only4com@web.de>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Re: Time AT TIME ZONE: false result using offset instead of time zone name
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 08:30:16 -0800
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On 02/12/2014 07:29 AM, rawi wrote:
> Adrian Klaver-3 wrote
>> Welcome to the wacky world of time, it is all relative:) The choices are
>> handle everything as UTC until you present to the end user or use actual
>> timezones, for example, America/Los_Angeles. To illustrate, in your
>> original post you said:
>>
>> "But it would be easier to ask a specific time offset (got from a client
>> around the world), so for me +01 hour"
>>
>> Do you know if that offset supplied by the client was POSIX or ISO in
>> its sign?
>
> The (playing) question was: how would I get the time zone of a browser
> somewhere unknown on earth?
>
> And the found javascript solution would return the difference between GMT
> and localtime in minutes, so for me west from Greenwich a negative integer.
>
> Please save the following in a html file eg. "time_offset.html" and load it
> in your browser:


I do not see the code, so I can not test.

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