| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Timezone fun (bugs and a request) |
| Date: | 2004-05-25 03:36:29 |
| Message-ID: | 17525.1085456189@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> writes:
> Also, unless I'm missing something, shouldn't Chile (Alvaro's timezone?)
> be behind GMT (GMT-something) not ahead of it (GMT+something)?
Part of the confusion here is that the zone names in the zic database
follow POSIX rules: plus is west of Greenwich. AFAICS it's doing the
right thing in selecting Etc/GMT-12 for you. Have you checked the
actual time values reported by the server to see if they look okay?
I'm a bit hesitant to reverse the sign convention in the zic database to
agree with SQL conventions --- that seems certain to lead to even more
confusion.
regards, tom lane
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