Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> writes:
>
>>It'd be nice to have a predictable timezone choice made when there's a
>>tie. Perhaps we should order on timezone name in this case?
>
>
> The Antarctica zones would tend to win with such a rule, which is
> probably not what we want :-(. But certainly we could do something
> with ties beyond "take the first one in scan order".
>
> Would "shortest name wins" help any?
Well, I was thinking about the NZ vs. Pacific/Auckland tie actually. We
already have a way to avoid picking Antarctica -- scan further back.
-O