Re: [GENERAL] YTA Time Zone Question

2007-04-09 Thread Danny E. Armstrong
esql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] YTA Time Zone Question On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 05:52:02PM -0700, Danny Armstrong wrote: > If ruby and python tell me the value I just inserted into the db, > 1174773136, is Sat Mar 24 21:52:16 UTC 2007, then I expect that > > set time zone 0; -- form

Re: [GENERAL] YTA Time Zone Question

2007-04-06 Thread Michael Fuhr
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 05:52:02PM -0700, Danny Armstrong wrote: > If ruby and python tell me the value I just inserted into the db, > 1174773136, is Sat Mar 24 21:52:16 UTC 2007, then I expect that > > set time zone 0; -- format as though I'm in utc > select measurement_time > from table > > wil

Re: [GENERAL] YTA Time Zone Question

2007-04-06 Thread Tom Lane
Danny Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What am I misunderstanding and how do I get it to interpret the value as > utc and then not offset it when I view it, like python and ruby do? What you're misunderstanding is that you messed up the data when you put it into the database, probably by ha

[GENERAL] YTA Time Zone Question

2007-04-06 Thread Danny Armstrong
Hi, I have a question regarding postgres 8.2 handling of timezones. I receive posts of unix timestamps and convert them and save them to a timestamptz(0). I've read the docs on this, timestamptz stores internally as utc. The date is formatted per local time on display. If ruby and python tell me