Re: inverse of "day of year"

El Vie 19 Mar 2004 12:10, Tom Lane escribió:
> Robert Creager <Robert_Creager(at)LogicalChaos(dot)org> writes:
> > Martin Marques <martin(at)bugs(dot)unl(dot)edu(dot)ar> confessed:
> >> Is there a function that would give me the date for a given day of year?
> >
> > Something like:
> >
> > select date_trunc( 'year', now() ) + (extract( doy from now() ) - 1) *
> > '1day'::interval;
>
> timestamp + interval arithmetic is likely to give you problems at
> daylight savings boundaries, since '1day' will be taken as '24hours'.

Is there information on how other intervals are taken? I mean, how is '1 year'
afected with the leap years?

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