Re: New timezones used in regression tests

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christoph Berg <cb(at)df7cb(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New timezones used in regression tests
Date: 2014-05-15 19:17:41
Message-ID: 20140515191741.GJ25053@momjian.us
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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 02:47:21PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 07:16:48PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I agree, that seems an entirely gratuitous choice of zone. It does
> >> seem like a good idea to test a zone that has a nonintegral offset
> >> from GMT, but we can get that from almost anywhere as long as we're
> >> testing a pre-1900 date. There's no need to use any zones that aren't
> >> long-established and unlikely to change.
>
> > If we want a nonintegral offset, why are we not using 'Asia/Calcutta',
> > which is +5:30 from UTC?
>
> I believe there's already one of those tests that considers a zone like
> that. No, I meant a really odd offset, like Paris' +0:09:21 before they
> adopted standardized time.

Wow, OK, got it.

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