Re: Issues with EPOCH-s, TIMESTAMP(TZ)-s and leap seconds.

On 1/27/25 13:23, Nem Tudom wrote:

Reply to list also.
Ccing list.

See post from Peter Holzer .

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> Hi Adrian, all,
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>>> Any help, advice, recommendations, URL-s, references &c. appreciated.
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>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-datetime.html
>> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/view-pg-timezone-names.html
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>> " (Technically, PostgreSQL does not use UTC because leap seconds are
>> not handled.)"
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> Well, that was sweet and to the point! :-) Thanks for your input!
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> Does this cause any issues interfacing with other systems?
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> Hmmm... it appears not:
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> https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/105514/leap-second-in-database-system-postgresql-and-sql-server
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> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31136211/how-to-handle-leap-seconds-in-oracle
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> So, it would appear that neither Oracle nor Microsoft (RDBMS or OS/SQL
> Server) worry too much about this, so it would appear that I shouldn't
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> However, I think this means that there's 27 seconds of my life that I
> never knew I had...
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> Thanks again, saves me some work, and rgs,
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