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From Tom Lane
Subject Re: here does postgres take its timezone information from?
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In response to Re: here does postgres take its timezone information from?  (Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>)
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Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.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!

[ shrug... ] The installed format doesn't provide any way to
distinguish which are the "official" names.  They're typically
all hardlinks to the same file.

            regards, tom lane

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