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From: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.)
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 22:36:57 +0100
Message-ID: <875zp74zpf.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk> (raw)
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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

 >> This isn't good enough, because it still picks "UCT" on a system
 >> with no /etc/localtime and no TZ variable. Testing on HEAD as of
 >> 3da73d683 (on FreeBSD, but it'll be the same anywhere else):

 Tom> [ shrug... ]  Too bad.  I doubt that that's a common situation anyway.

I'm also reminded that this applies also if the /etc/localtime file is a
_copy_ of the UTC zonefile rather than a symlink, which is possibly even
more common.

-- 
Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)





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