Re: timestamp with time zone question...

From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: "P(dot) George" <invest(at)juun(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: timestamp with time zone question...
Date: 2004-11-22 02:13:01
Message-ID: 20041122021300.GA42769@winnie.fuhr.org
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On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 07:58:37PM -0600, P. George wrote:

> is it storing in the time zone of the actual server or something? not
> sure where my db server actually, physically is.

See the documentation for Date/Time Types and Date/Time Functions
and Operators:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/datatype-datetime.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/functions-datetime.html

> if so, does that imply that i can translate these stored dates to any
> target time zone of my choosing when selecting the date from the db?

Yes -- see the aforementioned documentation.

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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

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