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Re: Australian timezone configure option

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> — 2001-06-14T00:23:22Z

> 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