Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mWohe-0004lN-2j for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2021 23:46:02 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=malur.postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mWohd-0002nI-1Z for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2021 23:46:01 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:3e1:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mWohc-0002n9-QE for pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2021 23:46:00 +0000 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us ([66.207.139.130]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mWoha-0005AS-Nh for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org; Sat, 02 Oct 2021 23:45:59 +0000 Received: from sss1.sss.pgh.pa.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 192Njpti3723954; Sat, 2 Oct 2021 19:45:51 -0400 From: Tom Lane To: Andres Freund cc: Thomas Munro , Andrew Dunstan , pgsql-hackers , Peter Eisentraut , Petr Jelinek Subject: Re: 002_types.pl fails on some timezones on windows In-reply-to: <9CCC5FB9-AA36-48E3-987E-FEB669E21BD0@anarazel.de> References: <20210930183641.7lh4jhvpipvromca@alap3.anarazel.de> <3204190.1633030718@sss.pgh.pa.us> <3266414.1633045628@sss.pgh.pa.us> <3714784.1633207335@sss.pgh.pa.us> <3720049.1633213595@sss.pgh.pa.us> <9CCC5FB9-AA36-48E3-987E-FEB669E21BD0@anarazel.de> Comments: In-reply-to Andres Freund message dated "Sat, 02 Oct 2021 15:50:02 -0700" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <3723952.1633218351.1@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2021 19:45:51 -0400 Message-ID: <3723953.1633218351@sss.pgh.pa.us> List-Id: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: List-Archive: Archived-At: Precedence: bulk Andres Freund writes: > On October 2, 2021 3:26:35 PM PDT, Tom Lane wrote: >> However, the example >> we started the thread with is that Andres thought "Greenwich Standard >> Time" would get him UTC, or at least something a lot less oddball than >> what he got. > FWIW, that was just the default on those machines (which in turn seems t= o be the default of some containers Microsoft distributes), not something = I explicitly chose. So *somebody* thought it was an unsurprising default ... regards, tom lane