| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(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 18:47:21 |
| Message-ID: | 30847.1400179641@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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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.
regards, tom lane
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