On 12/14/2017 9:17 PM, Venkata B Nagothi wrote:
On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Ben Madin <b...@ausvet.com.au <mailto:b...@ausvet.com.au>> wrote:I'd be a little worried that if you set timezone = 11 for Australia/Sydney you are embedding the daylight savings value, not the standard time value (UTC+10)Totally agree. We have a weird situation where-in i had to do this and i would like to learn the impact on the data, i hope it would not fiddle the existing data. We are currently experimenting this.
in PostgreSQL, fields that are type TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE convert all input time values to UTC, and store it in an internal representation, and on output, they are converted to the client's current TIMEZONE.
-- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
