Re: Australian timezone configure option

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 06:52:52PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> I have decided to make this configurable via postgresql.conf so you
> don't need separate binaries / configure switch to run in Australia. I
> will send a patch over for testing.

Great, that's better than a configure option...

> > diff -ur postgresql-7.1.2.orig/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml postgresql-7.1.2/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
> > --- postgresql-7.1.2.orig/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml Tue May 15 01:11:31 2001
> > +++ postgresql-7.1.2/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml Wed Jun 6 10:35:30 2001
> > @@ -462,6 +462,20 @@
> > </varlistentry>
> >
> > <varlistentry>
> > + <term>--enable-australian-tz</term>
> > + <listitem>
> > + <para>
> > + Enables Australian timezone support. This changes the interpretation
> > + of timezones in input date/time strings from US-centric to
> > + Australian-centric. Specifically, 'EST' is changed from GMT-5 (US
> > + Eastern Standard Time) to GMT+10 (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
> > + and 'CST' is changed from GMT-5:30 (US Central Standard Time) to
> > + GMT+10:30 (Australian Central Standard Time).
> > + </para>
> > + </listitem>
> > + </varlistentry>
> > +
> > + <varlistentry>
> > <term>--enable-locale</term>
> > <listitem>
> > <para>