| 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: | Palle Girgensohn <girgen(at)pingpong(dot)net>, Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, Chris Withers <chris(at)withers(dot)org>, "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, "pgsql\(at)freebsd(dot)org" <pgsql(at)freebsd(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: here does postgres take its timezone information from? |
| Date: | 2019-11-18 01:56:14 |
| Message-ID: | 87r2260x7j.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk |
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
Tom> Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk> writes:
Tom> I think the "official" name of that zone is America/Los_Angeles.
Tom> But initdb might seize on the US/Pacific alias, if available,
>> And now you know why I have been saying for so many years that initdb
>> should use the official names!
Tom> [ shrug... ] The installed format doesn't provide any way to
Tom> distinguish which are the "official" names. They're typically all
Tom> hardlinks to the same file.
zone.tab / zone1970.tab. Which I first pointed out before 8.2 came
out...
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Andrew.
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