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From: tilman@indetech.com (Tilman Sporkert x2068)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: TZ and INGRES (was: Re: Time Zones HELP!)
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.210021.11083@indetech.com>
Date: 18 Apr 91 21:00:21 GMT
References: <1991Apr5.103756.18982@news.cs.indiana.edu> <1991Apr16.082104.11000@melba.bby.oz.au> <410@bksmel.oz.au>
Reply-To: tilman@indetech.COM (Tilman Sporkert x2068)
Organization: Independence Technologies, Inc. Fremont, CA
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In article <410@bksmel.oz.au> ntm@bksmel.oz.au (Neil McKinnon) writes:
>In article <1991Apr16.082104.11000@melba.bby.oz.au>, gnb@bby.oz.au (Gregory N. Bond) writes:
>> It's even worse than this.
>> 
>> Ingres (5.xxx) on Suns does all the date conversions in the backend
>> (so no spanning timezones, now!)
>> 
>
>Ingres (6.x) has only been available on Suns for about 2 years.
>I Guess it is a bit too soon to upgrade :-)
>
>Neil McKinnon
>(ntm@bksmel.oz.au)

Nice try. A full-featured INGRES 6 has been available for Sun's since July last
year (earlier version missed INGRES/NET alltogether, or didn't support 
INGRES/NET between Sun3's and Sun4's etc). I still haven't seen a fully
functional INGRES 6 for Sun4's yet!

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