Hi

I found a strange error (at least at first glance I had thought it
seems so):

mail=# select * from accounts_log where login='trading';
  id  |  login  | debet |  credit   |             when             
------+---------+-------+-----------+------------------------------
 6289 | trading |  1170 | 1294.9071 | Wed 21 Mar 18:07:19 2001 EET
(1 row)

mail=# select * from accounts_log where login='trading' and "when" = '2001-03-21 18:07:19';
  id  |  login  | debet |  credit   |             when             
------+---------+-------+-----------+------------------------------
 6289 | trading |  1170 | 1294.9071 | Wed 21 Mar 18:07:19 2001 EET
(1 row)

mail=# select * from accounts_log where login='trading' and "when" >= '2001-03-21 18:07:19';
ERROR:  Bad timestamp external representation 'Wed 04 Apr 20:00:56 2001 EEST'
mail=# 

Could you add some comments to this ?

Also I'd like to question if you don't mind: While now() outputs

  Sun 05 May 11:53:44.731416 2002 EEST

It seems I can't use EEST (Eastern Europe Summer Time) in input:

  proba=# select * from temp;
   n | date 
  ---+------
  (0 rows)

  proba=# \d temp
		   Table "temp"
   Column |           Type           | Modifiers 
  --------+--------------------------+-----------
   n      | integer                  | 
   date   | timestamp with time zone | 

  proba=# select * from temp where date = 'Sun 05 May 11:53:44.731416 2002 EEST';
  ERROR:  Bad timestamp external representation 'Sun 05 May 11:53:44.731416 2002 EEST'
  proba=# 

The EETDST time zone abbreviation works but it is inconvenient because
all files produced with pg_dump utility or copy command contains EEST
and I can't use then without some modifications e.g

  $ psql -e -f copy-command.sql proba
  Using pager is off.
  COPY "temp" FROM stdin;
  psql:copy-command.sql:1: ERROR:  copy: line 2952, Bad timestamp external representation 'Mon 26 Mar 18:45:36 2001
EEST'
  psql:copy-command.sql:1: lost synchronization with server, resetting connection
  $ 

To be precise, DST time was started at 25 Mar 2001 at 01:00 UTC for
our time zone (UTC+2) if it does matter.

Could you suggest something ?

Using PostgreSQL 7.2 on Slackware 8.0


Best regards

-- 
Vladimir Zolotykh

Sun, 05 May 2002 12:06:59 +0300
Vladimir Zolotykh <gsmith@eurocom.od.ua>
Bad timestamp external representation 'Sun 05 May 11:53:44.731416
	2002 EEST'