Re: Timezone for %t log_line_prefix

Greg Stark wrote:

>Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
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>>However, this is probably a bit more work than is reasonable to
>>undertake right now, when we're already overdue for beta. For the
>>moment I'm really thinking that we ought to just #ifdef out the %Z
>>on Windows, and plan to do something nicer in 8.1.
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>Could it just print numeric time zones on windows?
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http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt_strftime.2c_.wcsftime.asp

says this about strftime:

*%z*, *%Z*
Either the time-zone name or time zone abbreviation, depending on
registry settings; no characters if time zone is unknown

So I don't think we can.

One thought I did have was that we could force UTC on Windows as a quick
fix.

cheers

andrew