Oliver Jowett wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Oliver Jowett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>Also, unless I'm missing something, shouldn't Chile (Alvaro's timezone?) > >>be behind GMT (GMT-something) not ahead of it (GMT+something)? > > > > > > Part of the confusion here is that the zone names in the zic database > > follow POSIX rules: plus is west of Greenwich. AFAICS it's doing the > > right thing in selecting Etc/GMT-12 for you. > > Ew! That's disgusting! What possessed POSIX to do this the opposite way > to pretty much everything else?
You want ugly, look at how we find the system timezone --- we scan forward for 14 months looking at the timezone abbreviations returned by the operating system. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
