Re: Problems with Timezones in Australia - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Roderick A. Anderson
Subject Re: Problems with Timezones in Australia
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Msg-id 48F73E63.5070107@acm.org
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In response to Re: Problems with Timezones in Australia  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Problems with Timezones in Australia  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Re: Problems with Timezones in Australia  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Craig Ayliffe" <cayliffe@gmail.com> writes:
>> I have several Postgres DB's not showing correct daylight savings time.
>
>> From maillist etc I believe these are patched up to the right levels to have
>> the correct time zones - but they don't seem to be working still.
>
> No, you're behind the times: 8.2.4 and 8.1.9 are too old to know about
> this year's changes in southeast Australia DST laws.  Which I imagine
> is what's biting you.

A semi-cognitive question.

Doesn't Pg use tzdata (at least that's what it's called on for
Redhat-ian distributions) for it's timezone information?


Rod
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>
>             regards, tom lane
>


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