Re: Format of timestamp field

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:26:22PM -0400, Natacha Joseph wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used PostgreSQL 6.53 and I used tables with timestamps fields. When I
> read the value of a Timestamp field in a C program, i received a string of
> this format :
> 2001-04-08 12:54:09-0
> Can someone give me some explanation about the meaning of the two last
> characters ?
> Thanks

time zone (relative to gmt) -- i'm in central daylight, so mine
looks like this:

> select now();
now
------------------------
2001-05-11 16:12:04-05
(1 row)

> set time zone 'GMT';
SET VARIABLE
> select now();
now
------------------------
2001-05-11 21:12:15+00
(1 row)

gmt minus five hours = cdt

see /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc/html/user/datatype1130.htm#AEN1607

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