| From: | Dev Kumkar <devdas(dot)kumkar(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Timezone information |
| Date: | 2014-02-19 19:59:41 |
| Message-ID: | CALSLE1Mh9djWwgGa-35VyXtsQLUzaU0hnE-pq3Q1w=76QdHt8A@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> If you mean you would like to use Windows' timezone data, the answer is
> you can't --- and you generally shouldn't want to, because AFAIK their
> timezone data is pretty sucky: it's incomplete and not terribly accurate
> about historical details. We use the IANA timezone database[1], which is
> where those names like Asia/Calcutta come from.
>
> Most modern operating systems use the IANA database for their system-level
> timezone knowledge, but Windows is still in the dark ages last I heard.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
Hmm. Is there any postgreSQL command/binary which can be used to set
timezone according to OS one.
At the time of postgreSQL install how does it pick timezone information and
sets into postgreSQL.conf accordingly.
Regards...
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