Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Gierth
Subject Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.)
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Msg-id 87a7ek3pmm.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
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In response to Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

 >> This isn't good enough, because it still picks "UCT" on a system with no
 >> /etc/localtime and no TZ variable. Testing on HEAD as of 3da73d683 (on
 >> FreeBSD, but it'll be the same anywhere else):

 Tom> [ shrug... ]  Too bad.  I doubt that that's a common situation anyway.

Literally every server I have set up is like this...

 >> We need to absolutely prefer UTC over UCT if both match.

 Tom> I don't see a reason why that's a hard requirement.

Because the reverse is clearly insane.

-- 
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)



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