Re: here does postgres take its timezone information from? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Gierth
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?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

 Tom> 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!

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

zone.tab / zone1970.tab. Which I first pointed out before 8.2 came
out...

-- 
Andrew.



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