Thread: BUG #3835: TZ doesn't work

The following bug has been logged online:

Bug reference:      3835
Logged by:          Leonid Rozenblyum
Email address:      leokom@rambler.ru
PostgreSQL version: 8.0.14
Operating system:   Linux
Description:        TZ doesn't work
Details:

I need to convert string with timezone into timestamp with timezone. Example
from docs without timezone works OK:

Code: Select all
    SELECT to_timestamp(
    '05 JAN 2000+00',
    'DD MON YYYY'
    )


According to the specification I've tries to convert the string like:

Code: Select all
    select to_timestamp( '05 Dec 2000 00:00 UTC', 'DD Mon YYYY HH24:MI TZ'
)

or

Code: Select all
    select to_timestamp( 12 Jan 2000 04:00 -05', 'DD Mon YYYY HH24:MI TZ' )

but received an error:
ERROR: "TZ"/"tz" not supported

Documentation for my postgre version says that TZ is supported.

Is this a bug in postgre or in docs?

"Leonid Rozenblyum" <leokom@rambler.ru> writes:
>     select to_timestamp( '05 Dec 2000 00:00 UTC', 'DD Mon YYYY HH24:MI TZ'

Just cast the string to timestamptz.  You only need to_timestamp() for
nonstandard, ambiguous input formats, which this is not.

            regards, tom lane