| From: | Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> |
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| 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 20:27:18 |
| Message-ID: | 87a7ek3pmm.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.
Literally every server I have set up is like this...
>> We need to absolutely prefer UTC over UCT if both match.
Tom> I don't see a reason why that's a hard requirement.
Because the reverse is clearly insane.
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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)
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