Re: [HACKERS] Weird new time zone

From: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Weird new time zone
Date: 2004-07-16 03:35:13
Message-ID: 40F74CF1.6070506@opencloud.com
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Tom Lane wrote:

> I thought about restricting the scope of the TZ testing to start in 1990
> or so to avoid this, but that seems certain to fall foul of the other
> problem, which is distinguishing closely-related timezones (cf Chris
> K-L discovering that he lives in Antarctica, a few days back...)

How about scanning backwards until you have <= 1 choice or decide to
give up?

-O

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