Re: Daylight savings

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Justin Clift <aa2(at)bigpond(dot)net(dot)au>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Daylight savings
Date: 2001-05-04 22:27:38
Message-ID: 1731.989015258@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Justin Clift <aa2(at)bigpond(dot)net(dot)au> writes:
> This is so we can have certain types of data which are stored in the
> database as localtime, updated to still be correct during DST and
> after.

This sounds awfully ugly. Can't you design the data representation so
that no such kluge is needed? Most of the PG date/time types store in
GMT internally, so that there shouldn't be a problem...

regards, tom lane

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