Re: Weird new time zone

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Weird new time zone
Date: 2004-07-10 19:03:45
Message-ID: 20040710190345.GA4849@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:40:21PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> Perhaps, rather than just probing a few selected years, we had better
> check every year since 1970 ...

What if we tell the user what the detected timezone is at some point,
and tell them that it's only a heuristic? So if somebody gets a wrong
timezone, they can select the correct one in postgresql.conf.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
Tulio: oh, para qué servirá este boton, Juan Carlos?
Policarpo: No, aléjense, no toquen la consola!
Juan Carlos: Lo apretaré una y otra vez.

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