no.. still confused. I assume it's storing everythign in UTC.. did I need to specify a timezone when I inserted?
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:24 AM, bubba postgres <bubba.postg...@gmail.com>wrote: > Looks like a quick search says I need to specify the timezone... > > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:22 AM, bubba postgres <bubba.postg...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> >> I'm noticing some interesting behavior around timestamp and extract epoch, >> and it appears that I'm getting a timezone applied somewhere. >> >> Specifically, If I do: >> select EXTRACT( EPOCH FROM '2010-01-31 00:00:00'::TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME >> ZONE ); == 1264924800 >> select EXTRACT( EPOCH FROM '2010-04-01 00:00:00'::TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME >> ZONE ); == 1270105200 >> >> Now if I do something similar in Java.. using a GregorianCalendar, with >> "GMT" TimeZone. >> I get >> Hello:2010-01-31 00:00:00.000 (UTC) >> Hello:1264896000000 >> >> Hello:2010-04-01 00:00:00.000 (UTC) >> Hello:1270080000000 >> >> Which gives a difference of 8 and 7 hours respectively, so both a timezone >> and a DST shift are at work here. >> >> Is this the expected behavior of extract epoch, is there a way to get it >> to always be in GMT? >> >> >> >> >> >
