Was there something wrong with the tzdata distributed in 8.2.7?
current_timestamp is still using EST, but the date command run from the
command line is correctly returning EDT
[local]:owl=# select version(), current_timestamp;
version
| now
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------------------
PostgreSQL 8.2.7 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.4.6
20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3) | 2008-03-25 14:33:11.955247-05
(1 row)
Time: 0.584 ms
[local]:owl=# select now();
now
-------------------------------
2008-03-25 14:33:24.291317-05
(1 row)