Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.)

From: Andrew Gierth <andrew(at)tao11(dot)riddles(dot)org(dot)uk>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Christoph Berg <myon(at)debian(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.)
Date: 2019-06-26 13:01:43
Message-ID: 8736jwsdv2.fsf@news-spur.riddles.org.uk
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>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

>> Pacific/Auckland -> NZ

Thomas> Right. On a FreeBSD system here in New Zealand you get "NZ"
Thomas> with default configure options (ie using PostgreSQL's tzdata).
Thomas> But if you build with --with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo
Thomas> you get "Pacific/Auckland", and that's because the FreeBSD
Thomas> zoneinfo directory doesn't include the old non-city names like
Thomas> "NZ", "GB", "Japan", "US/Eastern" etc. (Unfortunately the
Thomas> FreeBSD packages for PostgreSQL are not being built with that
Thomas> option so initdb chooses the old names. Something to take up
Thomas> with the maintainers.)

Same issue here with Europe/London getting "GB".

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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)

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