On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 07:16:48PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Christoph Berg <c...@df7cb.de> writes:
> > 84df54b22e8035addc7108abd9ff6995e8c49264 introduced timestamp
> > constructors. In the regression tests, various time zones are tested,
> > including America/Metlakatla. Now, if you configure using
> > --with-system-tzdata, you'll get an error if that zone isn't there.
> > Unfortunately, this is what I'm getting now when trying to build beta1
> > on Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) with tzdata 2010i-1:
> 
> I agree, that seems an entirely gratuitous choice of zone.  It does
> seem like a good idea to test a zone that has a nonintegral offset
> from GMT, but we can get that from almost anywhere as long as we're
> testing a pre-1900 date.  There's no need to use any zones that aren't
> long-established and unlikely to change.

If we want a nonintegral offset, why are we not using 'Asia/Calcutta',
which is +5:30 from UTC?

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