Re: Extracting date from epoche

From: "Richard Huxton" <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "pgsql" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Najm Hashmi" <najm(at)flipr(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Extracting date from epoche
Date: 2001-06-21 17:47:09
Message-ID: 004901c0fa7a$329d5620$1001a8c0@archonet.com
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From: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>

> "Richard Huxton" <dev(at)archonet(dot)com> writes:
> > Tom - I thought 'epoch'::timestamp should work too - good reason, or
just
> > One Of Those Things (tm)?
>
> It works --- it's a symbolic value, though.
>
> regression=# select 'epoch'::timestamp;
> ?column?
> ----------
> epoch
> (1 row)
>
> regression=# select 'epoch'::timestamp + ('1 day'::interval);
> ?column?
> ------------------------
> 1970-01-01 19:00:00-05
> (1 row)

Ah - problem is in my wetware then. That's ok.

- Richard Huxton

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