[GENERAL] timestamp with time zone question...

2004-11-21 Thread P. George
i have a table with a 'timstamp with time zone' column. when i insert into it: '18 Nov 2004 00:00:00 PST' ...it looks like: 2004-11-18 03:00:00-05 ...once stored in the database. 0 o'clock vs. 3 o'clock. is it storing in the time zone of the actual server or something? not sure where my db server

Re: [GENERAL] timestamp with time zone question...

2004-11-21 Thread P. George
See the documentation for Date/Time Types and Date/Time Functions and Operators: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/datatype-datetime.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/functions-datetime.html if so, does that imply that i can translate these stored dates to any target time zone

Re: [GENERAL] timestamp with time zone question...

2004-11-21 Thread P. George
oops. that did it. ;-) thanks. - philip On Nov 21, 2004, at 8:42 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote: On Nov 22, 2004, at 11:30 AM, P. George wrote: well... the examples in the documentation work, but they only use static dates (hard-coded, i mean): SELECT TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE '2001-02-16