Re: Reference to UT1

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reference to UT1
Date: 2016-06-28 17:49:50
Message-ID: 20160628174950.GA23250@momjian.us
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On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 04:51:46PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 03:53:41PM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > The manual[1] says "Technically,PostgreSQL uses UT1 rather than UTC
> > because leap seconds are not handled." I'm certainly no expert on
> > this stuff but it seems to me that we are using POSIX time[2] or Unix
> > time, not UT1.
>
> Based on this report I have removed mentions of UT1 from our docs in the
> attached patch, which I would like to apply to 9.6.

Patch applied. Thanks for the report.

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