I was looking at perl CPAN Module (DateTime::Format::Pg) and saw that it did
something that seemed odd to me with time zones, based on the comment:
# For very early and late dates, PostgreSQL always returns times in
# UTC and does not tell us that it did so.
Early is before 1901-12-14 and late after 2038-01-18
A quick test setting my time zone to be America/Chicago I got
select '1900-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamptz;
timestamptz
------------------------
1900-01-01 00:00:00-06
(1 row)
and
select '2040-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamptz;
timestamptz
------------------------
2040-01-01 00:00:00-06
These seemed correct to me. I'm guessing this might have been a bug/feature of
pg in the long ago.
Steve
