Re: TO_CHAR(timestamptz,datetimeformat) wrong after DST change

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Jonathan Brinkman <JB(at)blackskytech(dot)com> wrote:
> I understand now that I must use America/New_York for DST to function.  I
> see in select * from pg_timezone_names ; that 'EDT' is a shortcut. I tried
> to SET TIME ZONE 'EDT'; but PG doesn't seem to like that.
>
> My problem is that the corrected time zone (America/New_York) doesn't seem
> to stick after updating. I update it in psql (cmd line) and within psql it
> returns correctly. But when I then view now() from command line the DST
> change is not there and time zone is again 'EST'. So:

SET is a session-local command. You may want to update it in
postgresql.conf (and then reload the config using pg_ctl reload). Or
you could use ALTER ROLE .. SET or ALTER DATABASE .. SET, if you don't
want to change it globally.

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