Re: New timezones used in regression tests - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: New timezones used in regression tests
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Msg-id 20140515191741.GJ25053@momjian.us
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In response to Re: New timezones used in regression tests  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 02:47:21PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 07:16:48PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I agree, that seems an entirely gratuitous choice of zone.  It does
> >> seem like a good idea to test a zone that has a nonintegral offset
> >> from GMT, but we can get that from almost anywhere as long as we're
> >> testing a pre-1900 date.  There's no need to use any zones that aren't
> >> long-established and unlikely to change.
> 
> > If we want a nonintegral offset, why are we not using 'Asia/Calcutta',
> > which is +5:30 from UTC?
> 
> I believe there's already one of those tests that considers a zone like
> that.  No, I meant a really odd offset, like Paris' +0:09:21 before they
> adopted standardized time.

Wow, OK, got it.

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