Steve Crawford wrote:
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.

Thanks, that's just what I needed.


Cheers,
Steve




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