Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 06:30:27PM +1200, Steve Martin wrote:
>> => show timezone ;
>> TimeZone
>> -------------
>> NZST-12NZDT
>> (1 row)
> I have no idea what timezone that it. Presumably it switches between
> daylight savings and non-daylight savings based on the US rules?
Yeah, that's a POSIX zone spec. See
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/datatype-datetime.html#DATATYPE-TIMEZONES
As noted there, if the OP really really wants to spell his zone name
that way, he could fool with the "posixrules" file in the timezone
database. But Pacific/Auckland is probably better. (I don't remember
whether 8.1 would honor changes in "posixrules".)
regards, tom lane
