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From: "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>
Subject: Calculation Error on Epoch?
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Folks,

I'm having a problem with:

SELECT date_part('epoch','2002-08-28'::TIMESTAMP)

Which is consistently returning an epoch timestamp that evaluates to
8.27.2002.   Is this a known issue?   A cross-platform problem?
 Suggestions?

-Josh Berkus