Thread: Timezone library on Unix

Timezone library on Unix

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
I am getting farther with the timezone library on Unix.

First, I realized that the share/timezone library doesn't have a
localtime file by default, so the PostgreSQL server doesn't know the
local timezone.  I added that and got:test=> select current_timestamp;
timestamptz-------------------------------2004-04-30 18:52:14.930852+00(1 row)test=> select timeofday();
timeofday-------------------------------------Fri Apr 30 22:52:17.686324 2004 EDT(1 row)
 

(How are we going to deal with the missing localtime file?)

It is obviously seeing my local timezone, but it doesn't know that it is
+04.  It is at least reading the right directory.

To test, define USE_PGTZ in pg_config.h and set USE_PGTZ=yes in Makefile.global.

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