From: | Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> |
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To: | Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Timezone fun (bugs and a request) |
Date: | 2004-05-25 11:21:52 |
Message-ID: | 40B32C50.2040508@opencloud.com |
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Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD wrote:
>> LOG: database system was shut down at 2004-05-25 15:15:44 GMT-12
>>
>>For comparison, 7.4.1 on the same system says:
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>> LOG: database system was shut down at 2004-05-25 16:03:43 NZST
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>
>>Can we keep the zic database convention unchanged but change the display
>>format in the logs to be consistent with the SQL conventions?
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>
> I think what was meant is, that if it displays GMT+-something it should
> convert the sign. Is that zic filename exposed anywhere else ?
>
> It is common practice that + is East and - is West, no ?
Yes, exactly. Regardless of how the timezone is handled internally,
showing 12-hours-east as GMT-12 in logs is horribly confusing.
-O
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