On pią, maj 10, 2013 at 10:34:02 +0200, Karsten Düsterloh wrote: > Under Pg 8.3, we used the timestamp > 0001-01-01 00:00:00+01 > as an easy-to-remember marker for 'dunno, but predates any usual > business dates' for fields of type timestamp with time zone.
Why didn't you use "-infinity" for this? > Any ideas? > Is this a known bug (I didn't find), maybe fixed in 9.2? It's not a bug. Berlin timezone that far away has such not-round offset. In time zone database you can find: # Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Berlin 0:53:28 - LMT 1893 Apr 1:00 C-Eur CE%sT 1945 May 24 2:00 1:00 SovietZone CE%sT 1946 1:00 Germany CE%sT 1980 1:00 EU CE%sT Best regards, depesz -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs