"A.M." <amcauley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > This works fine until I hit daylight-savings time when the name of > the timezone changes. So, given a "timestamp with timezone" and a > base timezone (non-DST), how can I determine if the date is currently > in DST? Is it possible to get the name of the new DST timezone? If you are running PG 8.2, the data in the pg_timezone_names and pg_timezone_abbrevs views might help you. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly