Re: possible time change issue - known problem?

From: Dennis Gearon <gearond(at)cvc(dot)net>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Dan Langille <dan(at)langille(dot)org>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: possible time change issue - known problem?
Date: 2003-04-07 15:40:16
Message-ID: 3E919BE0.3090707@cvc.net
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would this problem have happened using timestamptz?

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.
>
> Anyway, why not just:
>
> select current_date, current_date-1;
> date | ?column?
> ------------+------------
> 2003-04-07 | 2003-04-06
> (1 row)
>

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