Re: [SQL] Re: Problem with Dates

2001-01-26 Thread Glen and Rosanne Eustace
> Yep, you need to do whole shebang of dumping and reloading. Hmmm. I think I'll just cheat for a while and add 364 days, hopefully before the end of NZ daylight savings, the production release of 7.1 will be out. I really don't want to upgrade twice. Glen.

Re: [SQL] Re: Problem with Dates

2001-01-26 Thread Glen and Rosanne Eustace
> regression=# select '31/12/2000'::date + '365 days'::timespan; > ?column? > > 2001-12-31 00:00:00+13 > (1 row) > > This looks promising but I wouldn't call it conclusive, particularly > since you're probably using a different OS than I am (I'm on HPUX > 10.20).

Re: [SQL] Re: Problem with Dates

2001-01-26 Thread Glen and Rosanne Eustace
> Could one of you try it in 7.1 (beta3 or later)? We've changed some > details of the way daylight-savings transitions are handled in > date-to-timestamp conversions, so I think this might be fixed now. > It's worth checking anyway. I would prefer not to upgrade right at the moment, as my devel

[SQL] Re: Problem with Dates

2001-01-25 Thread Glen and Rosanne Eustace
template1=# select '31/12/2000'::date; ?column? 2000-12-31 (1 row) template1=# select '31/12/2000'::date + '365 days'::timespan; ?column? 2002-01-01 00:00:00+13<<< Wrong (1 row) template1=# select '31/12/2000'::date + '364 days'::time

[SQL] Re: Problem with Dates

2001-01-24 Thread Glen and Rosanne Eustace
pressie# select '31/12/2000'::date + '1 year'::timespan; ?column? - 01/01/2002 00:00:00.00 NZDT (1 row) pressie=# Well I do :-( I vaguely remember someone else having the same problem and it was something to do with daylight saving. I don't recall the sol

[SQL] Problem with Dates

2001-01-24 Thread Glen and Rosanne Eustace
I am using 7.0.3, I have a column tstamp defined to be 'date'; With a current value of '31-12-2000', if I update tstamp=tstamp+'1 year'::timespan I get '1-1-2002' Is this what is supposed to occur. If this isn't the right way to do this, how sho