Re: Strange time zone +00:53:28

From: hubert depesz lubaczewski <depesz(at)depesz(dot)com>
To: Karsten Düsterloh <pg-bugs-ml(at)tal(dot)de>
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Strange time zone +00:53:28
Date: 2013-05-10 10:37:57
Message-ID: 20130510103757.GA16357@depesz.com
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On pią, maj 10, 2013 at 10:34:02 +0200, Karsten Düsterloh wrote:
> Under Pg 8.3, we used the timestamp
> 0001-01-01 00:00:00+01
> as an easy-to-remember marker for 'dunno, but predates any usual
> business dates' for fields of type timestamp with time zone.

Why didn't you use "-infinity" for this?

> Any ideas?
> Is this a known bug (I didn't find), maybe fixed in 9.2?

It's not a bug. Berlin timezone that far away has such not-round offset.

In time zone database you can find:

# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Europe/Berlin 0:53:28 - LMT 1893 Apr
1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 24 2:00
1:00 SovietZone CE%sT 1946
1:00 Germany CE%sT 1980
1:00 EU CE%sT

Best regards,

depesz

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