Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> writes:
> On 11/09/2011 05:10 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> Is there a way to retain this information from the original database
>> when reloading?
> Time-zone setting is an attribute of the server configuration, not of
> the data contained in the database.
In particular, pg_dump doesn't know anything about postgresql.conf.
It's up to you to copy the server's configuration files.
regards, tom lane