"Prodan, Andrei" <andrei.pro...@awinta.com> writes:
> I have a DB in which items which are 'always valid' have a from_date of
> 19000101 000000+1 (Europe/Berlin)
> When i try to restore the same DB to (Europe/Bucharest), instead of
> 19000101 000000+2, the timestamp becomes "1900-01-01 00:44:24+01:44:24"
> which is ... strange.
No, not particularly. According to the Olson timezone database,
Bucharest didn't adopt standard time (that is, an integral-hours offset
from GMT) until 1931. Before that, local midnight was true local
midnight, and they are 1:44:24 east of Greenwich, so that is what
"midnight of 1900/01/01" means in that zone.
The only reason your code fails to fail in Europe/Berlin zone is that
Berlin adopted standard time in 1893, so that midnight of 1900/01/01
is already an exact offset from GMT in that zone.
Personally, I'd suggest getting away from the magic number. Consider
using NULL or -infinity instead of an arbitrary date. Failing that,
don't use a place-based zone with all the historical baggage that
those entail, but something fixed like 'GMT+1'.
regards, tom lane
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