From: | Geoffrey Myers <lists(at)serioustechnology(dot)com> |
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To: | Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com> |
Cc: | Geoffrey Myers <lists(at)serioustechnology(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: setting timezone |
Date: | 2011-11-09 19:23:45 |
Message-ID: | 4EBAD341.6040006@serioustechnology.com |
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Steve Crawford wrote:
> On 11/09/2011 05:10 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> We are moving a number of databases to new hardware. Some of these
>> machines have the timezone set in the database differently then the
>> actual location of the machine as they are access from a different
>> timezone. We were surprised to note that when we dump the database
>> and reloaded it on the new machine, it did not retain the timezone
>> setting.
>>
>> Is there a way to retain this information from the original database
>> when reloading?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> Time-zone setting is an attribute of the server configuration, not of
> the data contained in the database. Unless overidden by the timezone
> setting in postgresql.conf, PostgreSQL will use the server's time zone
> environment setting. You can specify a default time-zone for PostgreSQL
> independent of the server's environment by setting "timezone" explicitly
> in postgresql.conf.
>
> Clients can override the default server setting with "SET TIMEZONE TO
> ...;" which is useful when a single server is supporting users across
> many time zones.
Thanks, that's just what I needed.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>
--
Until later, Geoffrey
"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson
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