Re: Re: Timestamp without time zone

select date_part('epoch',timestamp) from table;
will give you the same result without using str2time at all.
Did I miss something here?

At 11:28 AM 6/14/01 -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
>>>>>> "AP" == Alex Pilosov <alex(at)pilosoft(dot)com> writes:
>
>AP> Why do you _want_ to remove timezone from values in database? There is
>AP> definitely a way to work around whatever problem you are having.
>
>Because my normal date parsing routines from perl's Date::Parse
>library don't recognize it, and fail to parse the date.
>
>% perl -MDate::Parse -e 'print str2time("2001-06-14 12:00:00+04"),"\n";'
>
>% perl -MDate::Parse -e 'print str2time("2001-06-14 12:00:00"),"\n";'
>992534400
>
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