Re: [BUGS] A date bug: number of day of October

2000-04-17 Thread Guillaume Perréal
ed to seconds). > But representing days as seconds breaks at DST boundaries. > > regards, tom lane Thanks you all, As I just use this code to get the number of seconds in a month (and don't care anyway of the timezone), I think I could use this: select date_part('epoch', date_trunc('month', '1999-10-01'::timestamp + '1 month 1 hour'::interval))-date_part('epoch', '1999-10-01'::timestamp); Regards, Guillaume Perréal - Stagiaire MIAG Cemagref (URH), Lyon, France Tél: (+33) 4.72.20.87.64

[BUGS] A date bug: number of day of October

2000-04-13 Thread Guillaume Perréal
Hi all, I think there is a bug in the PostgreSQL date system: Try computing (replace with some differents years): '-10-01'::datetime + '1 month'::interval Depending on the year, you can get '-11-01' as expected or 'XXXX-10-31' which