> Having said that, I'd still be inclined to try to set the remote's
> timezone GUC just so that error messages coming back from the remote
> don't reflect a randomly different timezone, which was the basic issue
> in the buildfarm failures we saw yesterday. OTOH, there is no guarantee
> at all that the remote has the same timezone database we do, so it may
> not know the zone or may think it has different DST rules than we think;
> so it's not clear how far we can get with that. Maybe we should just
> set the remote session's timezone to GMT always.
Yeah, that seems the safest choice. What are the potential drawbacks,
if any?
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