On 11/09/2011 05:10 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
We are moving a number of databases to new hardware. Some of these
machines have the timezone set in the database differently then the
actual location of the machine as they are access from a different
timezone. We were surprised to note that when we dump the database
and reloaded it on the new machine, it did not retain the timezone
setting.
Is there a way to retain this information from the original database
when reloading?
Thanks.
Time-zone setting is an attribute of the server configuration, not of
the data contained in the database. Unless overidden by the timezone
setting in postgresql.conf, PostgreSQL will use the server's time zone
environment setting. You can specify a default time-zone for PostgreSQL
independent of the server's environment by setting "timezone" explicitly
in postgresql.conf.
Clients can override the default server setting with "SET TIMEZONE TO
...;" which is useful when a single server is supporting users across
many time zones.
Cheers,
Steve
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