Re: New timezones used in regression tests

Re: Robert Haas 2014-05-13 <CA+TgmobVo--RCSrZ-U5fMa0Mo9XVpRptwevSW78oDceqJcMtkQ(at)mail(dot)gmail(dot)com>
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > I'm quite unimpressed by the dependency on Mars/Mons_Olympus, too ... that
> > might not fail *today*, but considering it's a real location, assuming it
> > is not in the IANA database seems like a recipe for future failure.
> > Maybe something like Nehwon/Lankhmar? Or maybe we should not try to be
> > cute but just test Foo/Bar.
>
> Personally, I think it would be *awesome* if our regression tests
> started failing due to the establishment of Mars/Mons_Olympus as a
> real time zone.

Of course, Wikipedia has something to say about this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars

I especially like MTC, Mars Time Coordinated. But whatever scheme gets
chosen, it won't be a standard 24h day, so PostgreSQL has a whole lot
of different problems to solve than to "fix" that little
Mars/Mons_Olympus gem now... :)

Christoph
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