Re: TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Richard Troy <rtroy(at)ScienceTools(dot)com>
Cc: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, Randy Shelley <randy(dot)shelley(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE
Date: 2006-12-15 20:41:31
Message-ID: 21394.1166215291@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Richard Troy <rtroy(at)ScienceTools(dot)com> writes:
> See my post from a few minutes ago, but simply put, time/date is at least
> as challenging as money or multibyte character. And, simply put, the
> Postgres implementation of timezone is INSUFFICIENT.

Really? We do all the things you have listed, and more. AFAICS what
you have described is an outside-the-database reinvention of PG's
semantics for timestamp with time zone.

regards, tom lane

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