Attached is a patch to fix the problem Thomas mentions below. The JDBC
driver now correctly handles timezones that are offset fractional hours
from GMT (ie. -06:30).
thanks,
--Barry
Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>> FYI, the reason I personally didn't want to apply this to 7.1.2 is
>> because we already added two new bugs in 7.1.1, and I didn't want to be
>> the one to add another. Add that to the natural problems I have with
>> JDBC, and I ran. :-)
>
>
> Understandable. You shouldn't *have* to take responsibility for every
> patch coming in, so feel free to leave some things for others. And if
> there is a problem with this one, I'll understand if you need to yell at
> me a little ;)
>
> As a (sort of) aside, by forcing me to inspect the code we have
> uncovered a problem with atypical time zones which we would not
> otherwise have noticed, at least until someone in Newfoundland or India
> stumbled on it. No patch yet, but at least we know it is there...
>
> - Thomas
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