Re: Time zone "GST" not recognized.

On 1/24/20 9:19 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
> On 1/24/20 8:59 AM, nikhil raj wrote:
>> Hi ALL,
>>
>> Required help with the time zone. i am getting error on the GST time
>> line. is tht a bug or postgres doesn't support the GST time zone.
>>
>>
>> select CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AT TIME ZONE 'GST'
>> ERROR: time zone "GST" not recognized SQL state: 22023
>
> Try GMT:
>
> test_(postgres)# select CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AT TIME ZONE 'GMT';
>           timezone
> ----------------------------
>  2020-01-24 17:17:52.754861

Aah, is this what you are looking for?:

https://24timezones.com/time-zone/gst

It seems to be an alias for UTC+04, though not recognized by IANA. That
would be:

Asia/Dubai or Asia/Muscat

Unless you are talking about:

https://24timezones.com/time-zone/gst_georgia

>
> For list of recognized abbreviations:
>
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/view-pg-timezone-abbrevs.html
>
>>
>>
>> Postgres -:11.2
>> Ubuntu:-18.04
>>
>
>

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