Commit fd54baa9 authored by Thomas G. Lockhart's avatar Thomas G. Lockhart

Add detailed information on Australian time zones.

parent 911fc20c
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Date/time details
$Log: datetime.sgml,v $
Revision 2.6 2000/02/02 16:21:06 thomas
Add detailed information on Australian time zones.
Revision 2.5 1999/10/12 13:57:04 thomas
Sequence of date interpretation not quite right.
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</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<note>
<para>
If the compiler option USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES is set
then <literal>EST</literal> refers to Australia Eastern Std Time,
which has an offset of +10:00 hours from UTC.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>Australian Time Zones</title>
<para>
Australian time zones and their naming variants
account for fully one quarter of all time zones in the
<productname>Postgres</productname> time zone lookup table.
There are two naming conflicts with common time zones defined
in the United States, <literal>CST</literal> and <literal>EST</literal>.
</para>
</note>
<para>
If the compiler option USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES is set
then <literal>CST</literal> and <literal>EST</literal> will be
interpreted using Australian conventions.
<table tocentry="1">
<title><productname>Postgres</productname> Australian Time Zones</title>
<titleabbrev>Australian Time Zones</titleabbrev>
<tgroup cols="3">
<thead>
<row>
<entry>Time Zone</entry>
<entry>Offset from UTC</entry>
<entry>Description</entry>
</row>
</thead>
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>CST</entry>
<entry>+10:30</entry>
<entry>Australian Central Standard Time</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>EST</entry>
<entry>+10:00</entry>
<entry>Australian Eastern Standard Time</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</para>
</sect2>
<procedure>
<sect2>
<title>Date/Time Input Interpretation</title>
<para>
The date/time types are all decoded using a common set of routines.
</para>
<procedure>
<title>Date/Time Input Interpretation</title>
<step>
<para>
Break the input string into tokens and categorize each token as
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</para>
</step>
</procedure>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1>
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