Re: date with month and year

From: Paul Jungwirth <pj(at)illuminatedcomputing(dot)com>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: date with month and year
Date: 2015-05-21 21:33:45
Message-ID: 555E4F39.7050307@illuminatedcomputing.com
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> what you've said above is incorrect.
> All "WITH TIME ZONE" does is tell PostgreSQL to apply timezone
> conversions during various operations. The stored data is represented
> as an epoch without any concept of the source data's timezone
> representation.

Oh, very interesting! Thank you for pointing that out. I'll have to
think some more about when I'd want that behavior.

Paul

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