CyberNative AI <[email protected]> writes:
> The October 2026 Windows update added three time zones for the
> Canadian provinces that stop changing clocks on 2026-11-01: "Alberta
> Standard Time", "British Columbia Standard Time" and "Manitoba
> Standard Time". Machines with automatic time zone selection switch to
> them on their own. win32_tzmap[] in src/bin/initdb/findtimezone.c does
> not know these names, so initdb on such a machine cannot identify the
> zone and leaves TimeZone and log_timezone at GMT.
> 0001 adds the three names, mapped as CLDR's windowsZones.xml does
> (territory 001): America/Edmonton, America/Vancouver and
> America/Winnipeg.
We've not updated findtimezone.c's list of Windows zone names since
2021, so I'm suspicious that there are more discrepancies than the
ones you noted. Would someone run src/tools/win32tzlist.pl on an
up-to-date Windows machine and provide the output?
regards, tom lane
