Re: setting timezone

Steve Crawford wrote:
> On 11/09/2011 05:10 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> We are moving a number of databases to new hardware. Some of these
>> machines have the timezone set in the database differently then the
>> actual location of the machine as they are access from a different
>> timezone. We were surprised to note that when we dump the database
>> and reloaded it on the new machine, it did not retain the timezone
>> setting.
>>
>> Is there a way to retain this information from the original database
>> when reloading?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> Time-zone setting is an attribute of the server configuration, not of
> the data contained in the database. Unless overidden by the timezone
> setting in postgresql.conf, PostgreSQL will use the server's time zone
> environment setting. You can specify a default time-zone for PostgreSQL
> independent of the server's environment by setting "timezone" explicitly
> in postgresql.conf.
>
> Clients can override the default server setting with "SET TIMEZONE TO
> ...;" which is useful when a single server is supporting users across
> many time zones.

Thanks, that's just what I needed.

>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>

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