From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Davidson, Robert <robdavid@amazon.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Getting yyyy-mm-dd 00:00:00 in an arbitrary time zone
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 19:32:25 -0500
Message-ID: <9493.1141432345@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D224B13DA625924883A3B024CD6608F001A6BB66@exchg-sea5-03.ant.amazon.com>
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"Davidson, Robert" <robdavid@amazon.com> writes:
> I am trying to find out what the last full day of data for an arbitrary =
> timezone (generally not the pg client's timezone). I get the =
> max(timestamp), then would like to remove the time portion. Sounded like =
> a job for date_trunc, unfortunately date_trunc is not timezone aware:
> select (date_trunc('day', '2006-01-31 23:00:00-800' at time zone 'CST')) =
> at time zone 'CST'
> 2006-01-31 22:00:00-08
> Since the client is in PST, the truncated date is returned as 2006-02-01 =
> PST which is two hours before the desired time.
You're being quite unclear about what you want, but AFAICS the above
expression does exactly what you asked for. Namely, you get a time that
is midnight in the CST zone and then is adjusted to your current
timezone for display.
Perhaps you could be more clear about why you don't like this result?
regards, tom lane
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