Re: Robert Haas 2014-05-13 <ca+tgmobvo--rcsrz-u5fma0mo9xvprptwevsw78odceqjcm...@mail.gmail.com> > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > I'm quite unimpressed by the dependency on Mars/Mons_Olympus, too ... that > > might not fail *today*, but considering it's a real location, assuming it > > is not in the IANA database seems like a recipe for future failure. > > Maybe something like Nehwon/Lankhmar? Or maybe we should not try to be > > cute but just test Foo/Bar. > > Personally, I think it would be *awesome* if our regression tests > started failing due to the establishment of Mars/Mons_Olympus as a > real time zone.
Of course, Wikipedia has something to say about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timekeeping_on_Mars I especially like MTC, Mars Time Coordinated. But whatever scheme gets chosen, it won't be a standard 24h day, so PostgreSQL has a whole lot of different problems to solve than to "fix" that little Mars/Mons_Olympus gem now... :) Christoph -- c...@df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
