Re: Feature freeze timezone change request

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob(dot)champion(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres(at)jeltef(dot)nl>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, rmt(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Feature freeze timezone change request
Date: 2026-03-19 16:08:18
Message-ID: 9373201a-27de-4026-8da1-392196144a55@joeconway.com
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On 3/19/26 11:37, Jacob Champion wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 5:41 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> I think the UTC-12 business is left over from when we defined it as
>> AoE, but we're not doing that anymore because it's too confusing.
>
> Yeah -- I swapped it recently because I noticed it was still labeled
> AoE, and I didn't want anyone to have to rediscover last year's
> thread. It wasn't really meant to be an endorsement for UTC-12.
>
>> What we've been using lately for release freezes is noon UTC, which
>> personally I'd prefer on the grounds that it's not as confusing
>> which day is meant.
>
> +1 for 12:00 UTC.

+1 seems reasonable and not likely to be misunderstood

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Joe Conway
PostgreSQL Contributors Team
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