> However, what I also discovered in that these values are not set
> until after the tzset() routine is called. Is that normal
> behavior? Doing a grep for tzset in the PG sources revealed
> that it's only called for a few SQL commands. Is it called
> anywhere as part of startup processing, and I'm just missing it?
> Or is the DEC implementation the only one that requires an
> explicit tzset() call before the use of these variables?
AFAIK tzset() is called automagically by all time-related libc routines
when they detect it is not set yet (at least I think with Linux it is
done this way. It's been a long time since I looked at that).
Maarten
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