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.