On Friday 20 June 2008 1:19 pm, Collin Peters wrote: > I have a server of which the OS timezone is set to Pacific time > (currently -7). I run the following query on it > > SELECT now(), now() AT TIME ZONE 'GMT+10:00', now() AT TIME ZONE > 'GMT-10:00', now() AT TIME ZONE 'Australia/Melbourne' > > I would expect this to return: > * column 1 - the current time in the pacific (-7) - "2008-06-20 > 13:09:39.245641-07" > * column 2 - the GMT +10 - "2008-06-21 06:09:39.245641" > * column 3 - the GMT -10 - "2008-06-20 10:09:39.245641" > * column 4 - the current time in Melbourne Australia - "2008-06-21 > 06:09:39.245641" > > Instead it returns: > * column 1 - the current time in the pacific (-7) ("2008-06-20 > 13:09:39.245641-07" - CORRECT) > * column 2 - the current time MINUS 10 ("2008-06-20 10:09:39.245641" - > WRONG) * column 3 - the current time PLUS 10 ("2008-06-21 06:09:39.245641" > - WRONG) * column 4 - the current time in Melbourne Australia ("2008-06-21 > 06:09:39.245641" - CORRECT) > > > Am I missing something obvious? Seems when I specify GMT+10:00 it > returns GMT-10:00 and vice versa. Note that column 2 & 3 are > timestamp withOUT timezone while 1 & 4 are timestamp WITH timezone. > But I still see this as totally wrong. > > Regards, > Collin Peters See this message for the explanation: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2008-04/msg00077.php -- Adrian Klaver aklaver@xxxxxxxxxxx