Re: Comment on timezone and interval types

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Bruno Wolff III wrote:
| Recently there has been some discussion about attaching a timezone to
| a timestamp and some other discussion about including a 'day' part
| in the interval type. These two features impact each other, since
| if you add a 'day' to a timestamp the result can depend on what timezone
| the timestamp is supposed to be in. It probably makes more sense to use
| a timezone associated with the timestamp than say the timezone GUC or the
| fixed timezone UTC.

If you add a 'day' to a timestamp, it should be identical to adding 24
hours. Any other interpretation leads to all sorts of wierd ambiguities.
For example, what is '2am April 3rd 2004 US/Eastern + 1 day'? 2am on
April 4th 2004 didn't exist in that timezone because the clocks were put
forward and that hour skipped. If you round up to the nearest existant
time, you then have the issue that '2am April 3rd + 1 day == 3am Aril
3rd + 1 day'.

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Stuart Bishop <stuart(at)stuartbishop(dot)net>
http://www.stuartbishop.net/
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