"dean walliss" <daw700(at)netspace(dot)net(dot)au> writes:
> ERROR: Bad date external representation 'Sat Nov 02 00:00:00 EST 2002'
Might you have AUSTRALIAN_TIMEZONES set true? "SAT" appears to be
considered a timezone abbreviation when that's the case --- this is
probably confusing the code that would otherwise be willing to take it
as a noise word.
regards, tom lane