Re: BUG #5466: Asia/Novosibirsk timezone problem

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Dmitry Funk <diffor(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Subject: Re: BUG #5466: Asia/Novosibirsk timezone problem
Date: 2010-05-19 19:00:35
Message-ID: 1274295519-sup-665@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Dmitry Funk's message of mié may 19 13:44:35 -0400 2010:

> Description: Asia/Novosibirsk timezone problem
> Details:
>
> Current system timezone: Asia/Novosibisk
>
> PostgreSQL on query "show timezone" show answer "Asia/Almaty"
>
> Asia/Novosibisk has daylight saving time
> Asia/Almaty NOT has daylight saving time
> and result of now() is wrong
>
> Workaround: "timezone = 'Asia/Novosibirsk'" in postgresql.conf
>
> Affected only Windows, not Linux.

We have this in pgtz.c:

{
"N. Central Asia Standard Time", "N. Central Asia Daylight Time",
"Asia/Almaty"
}, /* (GMT+06:00) Almaty, Novosibirsk */

Which is probably wrong.
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