Re: Timezones (in 8.5?)

hernan gonzalez wrote:
> >  hernan>  The support of timezones is really crippled
> > ?hernan> now.
> >
> > Crippled how?
> 
> Well, among other things, no builtin date-timetype allows me to save
> the timezone (or even the offset).
> No type allows to treat this three datetimes as different values.
> '2010-07-27 10:30 GMT+4' '2010-07-27 09:30 GMT+5' '2010-07-27 10:30 GMT+0'
> The ANSI spec at least permits that.

I think there is general agreement that we should have a timezone data
type which validates against pg_timezone_names().name.  It might be
enough to just document how users can create such a domain data type,
but I don't know of a way to do that.  Is this a TODO?

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