Jaime Casanova <jcasa...@systemguards.com.ec> writes:
> One of the tables in a client production system has several timestamp
> with time zone fields, in one of those fields they store '1900-01-01
> 00:00:00'::timestamp with time zone where there is no valid value (a
> legacy from another dbms)...

This will be interpreted as 1900-01-01 00:00:00 in whatever timezone
is selected when you insert the value...

> timezone 'America/Guayaquil'

... and in that zone, times before 1931 are taken to be local mean
solar time, which is 5 hours and change off GMT.  See the Olsen data
files:

# Zone  NAME            GMTOFF  RULES   FORMAT  [UNTIL]
Zone America/Guayaquil  -5:19:20 -      LMT     1890
                        -5:14:00 -      QMT     1931 # Quito Mean Time
                        -5:00   -       ECT          # Ecuador Time

                        regards, tom lane

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