Tom Lane wrote: > For the cases involving the America/Santiago zone, I'm a bit inclined > to just switch that to America/New_York, which seems much less likely > to get fooled with by IANA. But I'm wondering if Alvaro had a specific > reason for using the Santiago zone in those test cases.
No, I just used the Santiago zone because it was local. But I agree it's a bad one to use, because in the last decade politicians have been playing with it excessively, so +1 for changing to something else. > What I propose we do about that is replace the America/Caracas test cases > with Europe/Moscow tests, moving the dates as needed to match DST > transitions from when Moscow was observing DST (pre 2011). The comments > in the IANA files indicate that they believe the MSK/MSD abbreviations > have or had real-world usage, so they probably won't replace them with > numeric offsets. We can hope, anyway. Sounds reasonable to me. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
