Thanks for the quick response. One clarification on my original question - the database will always be in the local Eastern timezone, and will adjust accordingly to daylight savings time. For example, DBTIMEZONE is currently set to -04:00. When daylight savings time is over, it will be set to -05:00.
With that said, what is the best approach for converting from Eastern to Pacific, Central, and Mountain timezones, and considering daylight savings time?
Changing the data type of the DATE column is not an option at this point.
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by: sdstuberPosted on 2008-06-30 at 07:34:34ID: 21899454
" I do not want to have to consider daylight savings time when storing my timezone codes"
select tz from b where b.id = a.id)) from a
I think you'll have to store the PST/PDT timezone then. Otherwise you'll have to write the code to
derive daylight vs standard your self.
So, with a table B populated with PST/PDT, your query would look something like this.
select new_time(your_date,'EST',(