Add TIME and TIMESTAMP to EXTRACT to be able to obtain UTC value of WITH TIME ZONE types. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: CORE-6492 URL: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/browse/CORE-6492 Project: Firebird Core Issue Type: Improvement Components: Engine Affects Versions: 4.0 RC 1 Reporter: Mark Rotteveel As a follow-up to the discussion on firebird-devel titled "Current timestamp without timezone in given timezone", I suggest that we add TIME and TIMESTAMP to EXTRACT to be able to extract the UTC value of a WITH TIME ZONE type as an WITHOUT TIME ZONE type. This would have the following semantics: <part> from <datetime> => <resulttype> TIME from timestamp_with_tz => UTC value as TIME WITHOUT TIME ZONE TIMESTAMP from timetamp_with_tz => UTC value as TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE TIME from time_with_tz => UTC value as TIME WITHOUT TIME ZONE TIMESTAMP from timestamp_with_tz => UTC value @ current_date as TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE TIME from timestamp_without_tz => cast to TIME WITHOUT TIME ZONE (strip date) TIMESTAMP from timestamp_without_tz => original value (timestamp_without_tz ) TIME from time_without_tz => original value (time_without_tz) TIMESTAMP from time_without_tz => cast to TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE (value @ current_date) TIME from date_val => conversion error TIMESTAMP from date_val => cast to TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE (current_date + 00:00:00 as time) This solution would be non-standard, but would provide a nice symmetry with EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_HOUR FROM ...) and EXTRACT(TIMEZONE_MINUTE FROM ...) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://tracker.firebirdsql.org/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel