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Re: Feature freeze timezone change request

Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>

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From: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, rmt@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2026-03-19T15:37:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 5:41 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.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.

--Jacob