From: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
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To: | Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie(at)sable(dot)ox(dot)ac(dot)uk> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Need confirmation of "Posix time standard" on FreeBSD |
Date: | 2000-02-07 14:59:45 |
Message-ID: | 389EDDE1.2CEBC8E6@alumni.caltech.edu |
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> I can confirm that it is a POSIX standard. Section 8.1.1 "Extensions
> to Time Functions" of POSIX 1003.1-1988 says TZ can be of the form
> :characters
> for implementation-defined behaviour or else
> std offset [dst [offset][,start[/time],end[/time]]]
> (spaces for readability only) where std is three or more bytes
> designating the standard time zone (any characters except a leading
> colon, digits, comma, minus, plus or NUL allowed) and offset is the
> value one must add to the local time to arrive at Coordinated
> Universal Time. offset is of the form hh[:mm[:ss]] with hh required
> and may be a single digit. Followed by gory details about the rest of
> the fields. Phew.
Thanks for the info. How do they define "the standard time zone"? Is
it *any* time zone, or "GMT", or some other set of choices?
- Thomas
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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California
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