Re: automatic time zone conversion

On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:27:20PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Ken Williams <ken(at)mathforum(dot)org> writes:
> > I'm getting incredibly confused about the zones, though,
> > probably because I'm in Australia. On my system, I see this:
>
> > [sa0110e0:~] kenw> env|grep -i z
> > TZ=EET-10EETDT,M10.5.0,M3.5.0
>
> > But what's EET? Postgres seems to define that as something in
> > Eastern Europe. Is there a conflict here?
>
> Looks like it. Perhaps EET needs to be another name that has
> two different interpretations depending on AUSTRALIAN_TIMEZONES.
> What fun...

I would hve no problem with stripping out the whole australian timezone
stuff, if only the following would work:

# date --date='6 april 2002 12:00 AEST'
date: invalid date april 2002 12:00 AEST'
# date --date='6 april 2002 12:00 ACST'
date: invalid date april 2002 12:00 ACST'
# date --date='6 april 2002 12:00 ADST'
date: invalid date april 2002 12:00 ADST'

# date --date='6 april 2002 12:00 EST'
Sun Apr 7 03:00:00 EST 2002

What timezone should we be using?

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