Re:

Actually this was on FreeBSD 4.6 Release.

Sorry :(

Casting it to datetime fixed the issue.

Jeff.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 12:38 AM
> To: Jeff MacDonald
> Cc: Postgres List
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL]
>
>
> "Jeff MacDonald" <jeff@interchange.ca> writes:
> > This problem is occuring on pgsql 7.2.1 as well as 7.2.2.
> > I have nothing to say except this is VERY weird. Is there something
> > evil about 1930-04-27 ?
> > xxx=> SELECT age('1995-01-01',birthdate) FROM users where id =343;
> > ERROR:  Unable to convert date to tm
>
> What's your platform ... a recent Red Hat release perchance?  If so,
> PG 7.2.3 might make this better.  The glibc boys gratuitously broke
> mktime() for pre-1970 dates.  There's a workaround in 7.2.3.  But
> do complain to Red Hat if this turns out to be your issue.  They
> need to hear --- repeatedly --- that this was a stupid, stupid, stupid
> decision on the part of the glibc maintainers.
>
>             regards, tom lane