Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Weird new time zone - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Oliver Jowett
Subject Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Weird new time zone
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Msg-id 41009D67.2010008@opencloud.com
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In response to Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Weird new time zone  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com> writes:
> 
>>It'd be nice to have a predictable timezone choice made when there's a 
>>tie. Perhaps we should order on timezone name in this case?
> 
> 
> The Antarctica zones would tend to win with such a rule, which is
> probably not what we want :-(.  But certainly we could do something
> with ties beyond "take the first one in scan order".
> 
> Would "shortest name wins" help any?

Well, I was thinking about the NZ vs. Pacific/Auckland tie actually. We 
already have a way to avoid picking Antarctica -- scan further back.

-O


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