| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Dev Kumkar <devdas(dot)kumkar(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Timezone information |
| Date: | 2014-02-19 15:01:52 |
| Message-ID: | 31467.1392822112@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Dev Kumkar <devdas(dot)kumkar(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> How to set timezone in postgreSQL database to pick operating system level
> timezone information.
If you mean you would like to use Windows' timezone data, the answer is
you can't --- and you generally shouldn't want to, because AFAIK their
timezone data is pretty sucky: it's incomplete and not terribly accurate
about historical details. We use the IANA timezone database[1], which is
where those names like Asia/Calcutta come from.
Most modern operating systems use the IANA database for their system-level
timezone knowledge, but Windows is still in the dark ages last I heard.
regards, tom lane
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