Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.)

From: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.)
Date: 2019-06-14 21:36:57
Message-ID: 875zp74zpf.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

>> This isn't good enough, because it still picks "UCT" on a system
>> with no /etc/localtime and no TZ variable. Testing on HEAD as of
>> 3da73d683 (on FreeBSD, but it'll be the same anywhere else):

Tom> [ shrug... ] Too bad. I doubt that that's a common situation anyway.

I'm also reminded that this applies also if the /etc/localtime file is a
_copy_ of the UTC zonefile rather than a symlink, which is possibly even
more common.

--
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)

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