On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:01:18PM -0700, Jean-Christophe Roux wrote:
> Hello,
> I am a bit sorry to come back on that topic but I just cannot get it right. How comes that
> select now() at time zone 'EST'
> returns
> "2006-10-04 15:59:26.713623"
> when it is actually 16:59 on the east coast? Can it be that the server where the PostgreSQL database is located is
notproperly configured?
Maybe there's summar time/daylight savings time? I'm unsure if "EST" is
supposed to reflect that.
You can say things like:
select now() at time zone 'America/California';
Perhaps that gets you something more reasonable?
Have a nice day,
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