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Add detailed information on Australian time zones.

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$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml,v 2.5 1999/10/12 13:57:04 thomas Exp $ $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml,v 2.6 2000/02/02 16:21:06 thomas Exp $
Date/time details Date/time details
$Log: datetime.sgml,v $ $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 Revision 2.5 1999/10/12 13:57:04 thomas
Sequence of date interpretation not quite right. Sequence of date interpretation not quite right.
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</tbody> </tbody>
</tgroup> </tgroup>
</table> </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> </para>
<sect2>
<title>Australian Time Zones</title>
<para> <para>
Australian time zones and their naming variants Australian time zones and their naming variants
account for fully one quarter of all time zones in the account for fully one quarter of all time zones in the
<productname>Postgres</productname> time zone lookup table. <productname>Postgres</productname> time zone lookup table.
</para> There are two naming conflicts with common time zones defined
</note> in the United States, <literal>CST</literal> and <literal>EST</literal>.
</para> </para>
<procedure> <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>
<sect2>
<title>Date/Time Input Interpretation</title> <title>Date/Time Input Interpretation</title>
<para> <para>
The date/time types are all decoded using a common set of routines. The date/time types are all decoded using a common set of routines.
</para> </para>
<procedure>
<title>Date/Time Input Interpretation</title>
<step> <step>
<para> <para>
Break the input string into tokens and categorize each token as Break the input string into tokens and categorize each token as
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</para> </para>
</step> </step>
</procedure> </procedure>
</sect2>
</sect1> </sect1>
<sect1> <sect1>