Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why do we support just 'zulu' and none of the other magic time zone names: > http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/info/timezone.htm
AFAIK, zulu is the only one of those "military" designations that has any currency at all. I don't feel a strong need to import the rest ... particularly not the single-letter versions; the presence of those would allow the system to accept many typos :-( The real answer to all such questions, though, is that we ought not have the set of known timezone names locked down in code at all. It should come from a user-alterable configuration file. This would let us get rid of "australian_timezones" as well as solve the perennial gripes from out-of-the-way places that their favorite local zone name isn't recognized. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster