>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Munro <thomas.mu...@gmail.com> writes:

 >> Pacific/Auckland -> NZ

 Thomas> Right. On a FreeBSD system here in New Zealand you get "NZ"
 Thomas> with default configure options (ie using PostgreSQL's tzdata).
 Thomas> But if you build with --with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo
 Thomas> you get "Pacific/Auckland", and that's because the FreeBSD
 Thomas> zoneinfo directory doesn't include the old non-city names like
 Thomas> "NZ", "GB", "Japan", "US/Eastern" etc. (Unfortunately the
 Thomas> FreeBSD packages for PostgreSQL are not being built with that
 Thomas> option so initdb chooses the old names. Something to take up
 Thomas> with the maintainers.)

Same issue here with Europe/London getting "GB".

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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)


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