Oliver Jowett wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com> writes:
> >
> >>Also, unless I'm missing something, shouldn't Chile (Alvaro's timezone?)
> >>be behind GMT (GMT-something) not ahead of it (GMT+something)?
> >
> >
> > Part of the confusion here is that the zone names in the zic database
> > follow POSIX rules: plus is west of Greenwich. AFAICS it's doing the
> > right thing in selecting Etc/GMT-12 for you.
>
> Ew! That's disgusting! What possessed POSIX to do this the opposite way
> to pretty much everything else?
You want ugly, look at how we find the system timezone --- we scan
forward for 14 months looking at the timezone abbreviations returned by
the operating system.
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