> On 05/04/2023 11:18 CEST Steve Rogerson <steve.git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I was looking at perl CPAN Module (DateTime::Format::Pg) and saw that it did > something that seemed odd to me with time zones, based on the comment: > > # For very early and late dates, PostgreSQL always returns times in > # UTC and does not tell us that it did so. > > Early is before 1901-12-14 and late after 2038-01-18 > > A quick test setting my time zone to be America/Chicago I got > > select '1900-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamptz; > timestamptz > ------------------------ > 1900-01-01 00:00:00-06 > (1 row) > > and > > select '2040-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamptz; > timestamptz > ------------------------ > 2040-01-01 00:00:00-06 > > > These seemed correct to me. I'm guessing this might have been a bug/feature of > pg in the long ago. Judging by the commit message and changed test cases, probably: https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=921d749bd4c34c3349f1c254d5faa2f1cec03911 -- Erik
