Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> However, I actually prefer the mail header style of timezone to EST/EDT
> anyway:
Agreed, but AFAIK there's no portable way to ask strftime for that,
so you're still stuck with a compatibility problem. We could teach
pg_strftime to do it, but that's something for 8.1 or beyond.
regards, tom lane