On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Jonathan Brinkman <j...@blackskytech.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. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
