On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Eduardo Piombino <drakorg@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> I see current criteria and all the SQL-standard compliance policy, but >> wouldn't it still make sense to be able to store a date reference, along >> with a time zone reference? >> Wouldn't it be useful, wouldn't it be elegant? > > It seems pretty ill-defined to me, considering that many jurisdictions > don't switch daylight savings time at local midnight. How would you > know which zone applied on a DST transition date? Yeah, I think the only reasonable way to define a date with a timezone would be as some kind of interval, starting at 00:00:00 and going until 23:59:59.99999 (or < 00:00:00 next day, whichever is more accurate. On spring forward / fall back days it would be 23 or 25 hours respectively. I'm not sure what you'd DO with it though. > TIME WITH TIME ZONE. We only put it in for minimal spec compliance. Yeah, it's kinda twilight zonish to me. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
