Re: Assigning a timestamp without timezone to a timestamp

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:06:00PM -0700, chrisj wrote:
> If only all time zones were fixed offset timezones life would be so much
> simpler.

Indeed.

> Unfortunately the main area of deployment of my app will beToronto which is
> on EDT which is not a fixed offsets timezone. I hope/assume your solution
> works with "EDT" instead of "-3", I will test it soon.

Should do, although you'll need more than EDT. EDT is also fixed:
it's UTC-4. EST5EDT isn't, though, so you could use that (you'd need
to improve your schema, though, because you had char(3) there, and
not all time zones are 3 characters long). But to answer your
question, yes, it works. I just tried it.

A

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