From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Takahiro Itagaki <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Aftab Hussain <aftab(dot)se(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Patch for PKST timezone |
Date: | 2010-05-11 16:51:01 |
Message-ID: | 4BE98AF5.9030600@enterprisedb.com |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>> Takahiro Itagaki wrote:
>>> Should we add PKST timezone? Also, I found a list of timezones[1]
>>> and we don't have 36 tznames in the list. Should we also need them?
>
>> I don't think we want to include all timezone names in the default
>> config, timezone abbreviations aren't always unique for example. But we
>> should include PKST because we already include PKT; it would be nasty
>> for an application to work during winter, and stop working when the
>> daylight saving time begins.
>
> I don't think that's actually it. It looks to me like the Asia/Karachi
> zone definition expects the abbreviations to be PKST and PKDT. Not sure
> whether PKT is really in use, but it is not sensible to add PKST by
> itself.
How did you come to that conclusion? Googling for "Karachi PKDT"
produces no hits that would suggest PKDT to be a valid timezone name.
This (http://www.speaking-clock.com/Asia-Pakistan-Karachi_212.html) and
this
(http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/clockchange.html?n=757&year=2009)
also agree that PKT is the abbreviation for the winter time and PKST for
the summer time.
--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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