It does, doesn't it. And it does it just the way it is documented in 9.9.3 AT 
TIME ZONE table 9.27.

I was expecting it to be harder and didn't see I had figured out the right 
answer already - thanks!

Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 4:32 PM
To: Davidson, Robert
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [SQL] Getting yyyy-mm-dd 00:00:00 in an arbitrary time zone 

"Davidson, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to find out what the last full day of data for an 
> arbitrary = timezone (generally not the pg client's timezone). I get 
> the = max(timestamp), then would like to remove the time portion. 
> Sounded like = a job for date_trunc, unfortunately date_trunc is not timezone 
> aware:

> select (date_trunc('day', '2006-01-31 23:00:00-800' at time zone 
> 'CST')) = at time zone 'CST'
> 2006-01-31 22:00:00-08

> Since the client is in PST, the truncated date is returned as 
> 2006-02-01 = PST which is two hours before the desired time.

You're being quite unclear about what you want, but AFAICS the above expression 
does exactly what you asked for.  Namely, you get a time that is midnight in 
the CST zone and then is adjusted to your current timezone for display.

Perhaps you could be more clear about why you don't like this result?

                        regards, tom lane

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