N. Fung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) reports a bug with a severity of 1
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Short Description
Wrong Timezone offset (like bug#672)
Long Description
function datetime() and extract() returns wrong timezone offset values. This is
present in v7.2.1 but NOT in v7.0.3:
In v7.0.3:
% perl -le 'print time ;'
1024903188
% psql template1
Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help on internal slash commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit
template1=# select datetime(1024903188) \g
timestamp
------------------------
2002-06-24 16:19:48+09
(1 row)
template1-# \q
% date
Mon Jun 24 16:20:17 JST 2002
In v7.2.1:
perl -le 'print time'
1024903424
% psql template1
Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help on internal slash commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit
template1=# select datetime(1024903424) \g
timestamp
---------------------
2002-06-23 22:23:44
(1 row)
template1=# \q
% date
Mon Jun 24 16:24:12 JST 2002
% psql template1
Welcome to psql, the PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
Type: \copyright for distribution terms
\h for help with SQL commands
\? for help on internal slash commands
\g or terminate with semicolon to execute query
\q to quit
template1=# select now() \g
now
------------------------------
2002-06-24 16:30:09.99867+09
(1 row)
template1=# select extract(timezone_hour from now()) \g
date_part
-----------
-9
(1 row)
---
Although I am in JST (UTC+9) postgresql is telling me the I'm UTC-9.
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