Re: Time is off in PG server

Tom Lane wrote:

>Ericson Smith <eric@did-it.com> writes:
>
>
>>When using date oriented functions on Postgresql, the time is an hour
>>off, or in certain times, one hour ahead.
>>
>>
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>>System Timezone: EST
>>System Time (date command): Thu Aug 26 09:44:28 EDT 2004
>>SELECT now(); : 2004-08-26 08:44:31.307343-05
>>SELECT date_part('epoch', '2004-08-26'::timestamp) ; : 1093496400 (1am
>>on that day -- should be 12pm)
>>
>>
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>Looks exactly right to me.  1093496400 corresponds to 1AM EDT, or
>midnight EST, and after all you do have the timezone set to EST.
>Possibly you want the zone set to EST5EDT instead.
>
>            regards, tom lane
>
>
I realized I made a mistake in that initial email (should have said 12am
instead of pm). However, I tried:

 > set local time zone 'EST5EDT';
SET
 > select now();
 now
-------------------------------
 2004-08-26 10:17:45.472901-05

[root@pg data]# date
Thu Aug 26 11:21:01 EDT 2004

- Ericson