Re: More time zones

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> One concern I have about the time zone abbreviation database is that the
> inflation of possible choices makes any kind of error checking mostly
> non-existant.

That's overstated, but it's a good point nonetheless. We had a report
of one missing timezone entry (or was it two?). Not sure that that
should prompt us to add a hundred entries of dubious validity to the
keyword list.

Perhaps we could find some middle ground between a hard-wired list and
looking up TZ entries in a fully dynamic system table. The list of
known timezones seems like something we could read from a flat text
configuration file at startup --- wouldn't that be enough
configurability?

regards, tom lane