Hi,

At October 24, 2003, 14:43, Roland Volkmann wrote:

> but what about the night, when the clocks a set back from summer
> time (CEST) to winter time (CET) and we have two times the hour
> between 02:00 and 03:00 ??

> In environments where events have to be registered correctly (e.g. police) the
> terminology 02:01A for the first hour, and 02:01B for the second hour is used.
> And such data can't be stored to type TIMESTAMP, right?

This is more application specific. I know that the ambulance dispatch
system that is used in my area doesn't make that distinction. And, by
looking at the times and the date, a person should be able to
determine that there was a time change.

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Best regards,
Daniel Rail
Senior System Engineer
ACCRA Group Inc. (www.accra.ca)
ACCRA Med Software Inc. (www.filopto.com)