Bruce Momjian writes:
> Let me see if I follow here. If I am in the Eastern timezone and enter
> a time for 9pm, 1/1/1850, and someone else in the Central timezone
> enters the same time, if I look at the two dates from the Eastern
> timezone I will see mine as 9pm and the other as 10pm?
That's exactly what happens, only that the central time would probably
show 8pm.
> Wow, I wonder if that is bad?
Depends on the application. I do wonder how the backend gets to know the
time zone from the front end. export PGTZ seems to do that, but not
export TZ, which is the standard variable.
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