Received: from maia.hub.org (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D3F1337C53 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:22:28 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.251]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 37268-01-9 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:22:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: delayed 00:09:21.837348 by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from ndmsnpf01.ndc.nasa.gov (ndmsnpf01.ndc.nasa.gov [198.117.0.121]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D03F1337C2A for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:22:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: from ndmsppt02.ndc.nasa.gov (ndmsppt02.ndc.nasa.gov [198.117.0.101]) by ndmsnpf01.ndc.nasa.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 402FC260435; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:22:00 -0500 (CDT) Received: from ndmshub02.ndc.nasa.gov (ndmshub02-pub.ndc.nasa.gov [198.117.0.161]) by ndmsppt02.ndc.nasa.gov (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p2FIM0b2019337; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:22:00 -0500 Received: from lrc000959195.larc.nasa.gov (198.119.134.170) by smtp02.ndc.nasa.gov (198.117.0.161) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.3.137.0; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 13:22:00 -0500 Message-ID: <4D7FAE47.3000503@nasa.gov> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:21:59 -0400 From: "Maria L. Wilson" Reply-To: Organization: SSAI User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Marlowe CC: "Wilson, Maria Louise (LARC-E301)[SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS, INC]" , "pgsql-admin@postgresql.org" Subject: Re: log timestamp since daylight saving time References: <4D7F6097.50708@nasa.gov> <4D7FABFC.6030809@nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.2.15, 1.0.148, 0.0.0000 definitions=2011-03-15_02:2011-03-14, 2011-03-15, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.21 tagged_above=-10 required=5 tests=BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 201103/174 X-Sequence-Number: 37046 yes they are all running the same postgres version. - 8.4.5 just as a test this morning - on one of the problem machines, we installed another postgres installation - same version - just pointed it to different paths - copied over the conf files and brought the server up. This time it was the correct timeszone - US/Eastern. The other postgres is set to EST5EDT. When I try to set it to US/Eastern, I get an error... postgres=# set timezone = 'US/Eastern'; ERROR: unrecognized time zone name: "US/Eastern" postgres=# On 3/15/11 2:18 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Maria L. Wilson >> wrote: >>> when you say updating postgres - do you mean the server software? How do >>> you update the tz data? >> Yes updating the pg software. The OS has tzdata as well, and you can >> update that. But postgresql includes its own tzdata so I'm guessing >> that updating pg would fix it. >> >>> I'm just a little concerned why only 2 of our machines (they are all >>> supposed to be the same) are having this problem. >> Are they all running the same pg version? > Also are all the machines set to the same time zone?