| From: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> | 
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)svr1(dot)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Cc: | pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: pgsql-server: Check more test points (in fact, every | 
| Date: | 2004-07-11 01:49:31 | 
| Message-ID: | 40F09CAB.9030306@familyhealth.com.au | 
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Cool, that fixes the detection for me.
Chris
Tom Lane wrote:
> Log Message:
> -----------
> Check more test points (in fact, every week in 1970..2004) to get a more
> accurate matching of our time zone to the system's zone.  This method is
> able to distinguish Antarctica/Casey from Australia/Perth, as in Chris
> K-L's recent example; and it is not materially slower than before, because
> the extra checks generally don't get done against very many time zones.
> 
> It seems possible that with this test we'd be able to correctly identify
> Windows timezones without looking at the timezone name, but I do not
> have the ability to try it.
> 
> Modified Files:
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>     pgsql-server/src/timezone:
>         pgtz.c (r1.17 -> r1.18)
>         (http://developer.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql-server/src/timezone/pgtz.c.diff?r1=1.17&r2=1.18)
> 
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