From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: AT TIME ZONE correction |
Date: | 2018-09-05 02:35:35 |
Message-ID: | 20180905023535.GC13695@momjian.us |
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On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 09:20:34AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 10:11:59PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 2, 2018 at 02:21:58PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > I still find this to be more confusing than helpful. In particular,
> > > I do not think that it's possible to explain this behavior clearly
> > > without mentioning that timestamp with time zone values are always
> > > stored in UTC and what AT TIME ZONE really does is convert between UTC
> > > and the specified zone (in a direction dependent on which type is
> > > supplied as argument).
> >
> > Agreed. The more I dig into this the more I learn. I have developed
> > the attached patch which I hope this time is an improvement.
>
> I polished the text some more and changed the three-letter time zone
> abbreviation (e.g., MST) to use the more general text, e.g.
> "America/Denver". We should not be encouraging people to specify the
> daylight savings time status based on the date in the date/time string.
Patch applied through 9.3. I ended up adding a third example:
https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/dd6073f22a6b5dd6181d8324465dd3c0bf1851e8
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