From: | "Dan Langille" <dan(at)langille(dot)org> |
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To: | Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> |
Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: possible time change issue - known problem? |
Date: | 2003-04-07 12:51:32 |
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On 7 Apr 2003 at 22:43, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 08:19:57AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> > Looking at the code, I suspect the problem is related to this problem
> > which I can duplicate on my current system: PostgreSQL 7.2.3 on i386-
> > portbld-freebsd4.6, compiled by GCC 2.95.4
> >
> > # select current_date, (current_date - interval '1 day')::date;
> > date | date
> > ------------+------------
> > 2003-04-07 | 2003-04-05
> >
> > I expect the answer to be 2003-04-06 (i.e. yesterday's date).
>
> Out of curiosity, would this weekend be the day you switched to/from
> daylight savings time? Then there were only 23 hours in the day, so 1 day
> ago was actually the 5th.
Yes, as hinted in the message subject. Hmmm, so that's how it's
doing the math. I would think '24 hours' would give a different
answer to '1 day' since '1 day' is not necessarily == '24 hours'.
> Anyway, why not just:
>
> select current_date, current_date-1;
> date | ?column?
> ------------+------------
> 2003-04-07 | 2003-04-06
> (1 row)
Nice. Thanks.
--
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
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