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Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:45:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: chrisj <chrisj.wood@sympatico.ca>
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Subject: Re: Assigning a timestamp without timezone to a timestamp
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Thanks for the heads up, I definately need  EST5EDT

you saved me twice!!


Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:06:00PM -0700, chrisj wrote:
>> If only all time zones were fixed offset timezones life would be so much
>> simpler.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
>> Unfortunately the main area of deployment of my app will beToronto which
>> is
>> on EDT which is not a fixed offsets timezone.  I hope/assume your
>> solution
>> works with "EDT" instead of "-3", I will test it soon.
> 
> Should do, although you'll need more than EDT.  EDT is also fixed:
> it's UTC-4.  EST5EDT isn't, though, so you could use that (you'd need
> to improve your schema, though, because you had char(3) there, and
> not all time zones are 3 characters long).  But to answer your
> question, yes, it works.  I just tried it.
> 
> A
> 
> 
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