Re: Australian timezone configure option
Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
From: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: chris.bitmead@health.gov.au
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Chris Dunlop <chris@onthe.net.au>, pgsql-patches@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-06-14T00:23:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Surely the correct solution is to have a config file somewhere
> that gets read on startup? That way us Australians don't have to be the only
> ones in the world that need a custom built postgres.
I will point out that "you Australians", and, well, "us 'mericans", are
the only countries without the sense to choose unique conventions for
time zone names.
It sounds like having a second lookup table for the Australian rules is
a possibility, and this sounds fairly reasonable to me. Btw, is there an
Australian convention for referring to North American time zones for
those zones with naming conflicts?
- Thomas