Re: Question about timezones

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 09:52:00AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> The infrastructure needed for this is finally present in 8.0, ie we have
> the timezone data available, but actually teaching AT TIME ZONE about it
> didn't get done in time. Likely it will appear in 8.1 (especially if
> you step up and do the work ;-)).

I've had a look at the code that is in CVS and it looks like everything
needed is basically there. I think what's basically needed is a system
to keep track of tzname => struct state mappings, probably a hash of
some sort.

I'd consider creating a timezone preserving type, but it's not
necessary for what I'm doing. Is that library already built into 8.0?
If that's the case there is an opportunity to create a contrib module
that hooks into it.

Hmm...
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