Tom Lane wrote:
Madison Kelly <li...@alteeve.com> writes:
How/Where does PostgreSQL set or determine the local time zone?
Well, "show timezone" will tell you what PG is using. Where it came
from is a bit harder to answer. The default is to use whatever
zone is current according to the postmaster's startup environment,
and that would depend on some factors you didn't tell us, like
how you're starting the postmaster. Do your two machines report
the same timezone when you run "date" as a shell command?
The easy solution is to set the value you want in postgresql.conf.
regards, tom lane
Hi Tom,
'date' shows the same:
Server (PostgreSQL 8.1):
$ date
Mon Mar 23 20:07:20 EDT 2009
db=> show timezone;
TimeZone
----------
GMT
(1 row)
Workstation (PostgreSQL 8.3):
$ date
Mon Mar 23 20:07:09 EDT 2009
db=> show timezone;
TimeZone
-----------
localtime
(1 row)
Neither has the environment variable 'TZ' set (at least, 'echo $TZ'
returns nothing). Also, 'cat /etc/postgresql/8.1/main/environment' has
no values on either machine. In both cases, the postmaster is started by
init.d. The only reference to time zone I could otherwise find was in
the 'postgresql.conf' file. Both are commented out with the comment that
timezone defaults to TZ.
My concern with forcing a value in the postgresql.conf file is
forgetting to update the conf file when EDT/EST changes...
Thanks for the help so far!
Madi
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