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Re: Win32 timezone matching

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan@kaltenbrunner.cc>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-04-07T19:06:55Z
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I wrote:
>         ereport(LOG,
>                 (errmsg("could not determine system time zone, defaulting to \"%s\"", "GMT"),

BTW, does anyone remember the reason for making "GMT" nonlocalizable
in these messages?  It seems more straightforward to do

                (errmsg("could not determine system time zone, defaulting to \"GMT\""),

I suppose we had a reason for doing it the first way but I can't see
what.  "GMT" seems a fairly English-centric way of referring to UTC
anyhow; translators might wish to put in "UTC" instead, or some other
spelling.  Shouldn't we let them?

			regards, tom lane