Re: [HACKERS] Reference to UT1

2016-06-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 04:51:46PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 03:53:41PM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote: > > Hi > > > > The manual[1] says "Technically,PostgreSQL uses UT1 rather than UTC > > because leap seconds are not handled." I'm certainly no expert on > > this stuff bu

Re: [HACKERS] Reference to UT1

2016-06-22 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 03:53:41PM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote: > Hi > > The manual[1] says "Technically,PostgreSQL uses UT1 rather than UTC > because leap seconds are not handled." I'm certainly no expert on > this stuff but it seems to me that we are using POSIX time[2] or Unix > time, not UT1.

[HACKERS] Reference to UT1

2016-06-05 Thread Thomas Munro
Hi The manual[1] says "Technically,PostgreSQL uses UT1 rather than UTC because leap seconds are not handled." I'm certainly no expert on this stuff but it seems to me that we are using POSIX time[2] or Unix time, not UT1. By my reading, UT1 is one of several time scales of interest to scientists