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Getting the name of the timezone, adjusted for daylight saving

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Running 8.4.6 hosted on Linux, if I do this...

SELECT to_char('2011-03-01 12:00' AT TIME ZONE 'GMT0BST', 'HH24:MI TZ');
 to_char
---------
 12:00
(1 row)

..I don't get a timezone- I can live with that.

If I do this...

SELECT to_char(('2011-03-01 12:00' AT TIME ZONE 'GMT0BST')::TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE, 'HH24:MI TZ');
  to_char
-----------
 12:00 GMT
(1 row)

..then I get the GMT time with a timezone 'GMT'- that's what I want.

But if I do this...

SELECT to_char(('2011-04-01 12:00' AT TIME ZONE 'GMT0BST')::TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE, 'HH24:MI TZ');
  to_char
-----------
 13:00 GMT
(1 row)

..then I get the time corrected for daylight saving- which is what I want- but the timezone doesn't indicate that daylight saving has been applied.

In the general case, how can I get TZ indicating whether daylight saving is in effect? Alternatively, is there a flag I can retrieve indicating that a timestamp has been corrected for DST so that I can select an alternative name for display?

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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