From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.)
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 16:44:57 +0000
Message-ID: <20190604164457.772invck3lgxk75s@alap3.anarazel.de> (raw)
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Hi,
On 2019-06-04 17:20:42 +0100, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> fwiw on FreeBSD with no /etc/localtime and no TZ in the environment (and
> hence running on UTC), I get "UCT" on both 11.3 and HEAD.
That makes sense. As far as I can tell the reason that 12 sometimes ends
up with the proper timezone is that we shortcut the search by:
/*
* Try to avoid the brute-force search by seeing if we can recognize the
* system's timezone setting directly.
*
* Currently we just check /etc/localtime; there are other conventions for
* this, but that seems to be the only one used on enough platforms to be
* worth troubling over.
*/
if (check_system_link_file("/etc/localtime", &tt, resultbuf))
return resultbuf;
which is actually a behaviour changing, rather than just an
optimization, when there's a lot of equivalently scoring timezones.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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