Re: Top five challenges

On 03/10/2011 08:53 AM, silly sad wrote:


>>
>> Well, 'epoch' clearly is a point in time with the hour being midnight at
>> GMT, so I don't see a problem with epoch making such an adjustment:
>
>
> great! the flexible epoch!
>
> when do want to point an epoch to?
> just set timezone and enjoy.
>

I am not sure what your point is. The epoch being used is just one of
many that could have been used, see link below. So by definition the
term epoch is flexible. The Postgres project has chosen a particular
value for 'epoch' as explained in the docs. This 'epoch' is a special
datetime value pinned to a point in time(as Bruce mentioned). All adding
a time zone does is translate the GMT point in time to the time zone
point in time. They are the same time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_%28reference_date%29#Computing


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