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mrrubberburner

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  1. comment
    Comment #36154925

    Timezonetz is explicitly designed for simplified arithmetic. By storing local values that have been converted to the utc constant, you get around the problem entirely. I think ther…

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    Comment #36153878

    Future events are trivially handled by timestamptz. PG takes your future timestamp and your client connections timezone converts to a utc constant and likewise casts the utc time t…

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    Comment #36153669

    If a user doesn't want to follow dst then they can say so and follow standard time by configuring their client connection. I’m struggling to think of a case where I would want an a…

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    Comment #36153465

    Afaik Databases(as opposed to server) have a default timezone setting, but that is only used if the client hasn’t provided one.