Re: New timezones used in regression tests

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: New timezones used in regression tests
Date: 2014-05-13 13:55:26
Message-ID: 20140513135526.GR6018@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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Christoph Berg wrote:

> Of course, Wikipedia has something to say about this:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars

Nice.

> I especially like MTC, Mars Time Coordinated. But whatever scheme gets
> chosen, it won't be a standard 24h day, so PostgreSQL has a whole lot
> of different problems to solve than to "fix" that little
> Mars/Mons_Olympus gem now... :)

Maybe a new type, mars_timestamptz()? Or perhaps the celestial body
name should be part of the typmod for standard timestamptz ...?

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Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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