Re: Australian timezone configure option

From: Justin Clift <aa2(at)bigpond(dot)net(dot)au>
To: Chris Dunlop <chris(at)onthe(dot)net(dot)au>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Australian timezone configure option
Date: 2001-06-12 02:25:11
Message-ID: 01061212251103.05952@justin
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Hi all,

Can we *not* make USE_AUSTRALIAN_RULES into a "configure" option?

Seems like this would conflict with Tom's suggestion of making it a GUC
option instead.

I vote for having it as a GUC option instead.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

On Wednesday 06 June 2001 10:43, Chris Dunlop wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Could we also trouble you for documentation patches? IIRC, there's a
> > list of all interesting configure options somewhere in the
> > administrator's guide.
>
> Documentation ? We don't need no steenking documentation!...
>
>
> diff -ur postgresql-7.1.2.orig/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
> postgresql-7.1.2/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml ---
> postgresql-7.1.2.orig/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml Tue May 15 01:11:31
> 2001 +++ postgresql-7.1.2/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml Wed Jun 6
> 10:35:30 2001 @@ -462,6 +462,20 @@
> </varlistentry>
>
> <varlistentry>
> + <term>--enable-australian-tz</term>
> + <listitem>
> + <para>
> + Enables Australian timezone support. This changes the
> interpretation + of timezones in input date/time strings from
> US-centric to + Australian-centric. Specifically, 'EST' is changed
> from GMT-5 (US + Eastern Standard Time) to GMT+10 (Australian
> Eastern Standard Time) + and 'CST' is changed from GMT-5:30 (US
> Central Standard Time) to + GMT+10:30 (Australian Central Standard
> Time).
> + </para>
> + </listitem>
> + </varlistentry>
> +
> + <varlistentry>
> <term>--enable-locale</term>
> <listitem>
> <para>
>
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