On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:13:42PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > The zic database doesn't seem to have a problem with using the same > abbreviations to mean many different things. We could look to it for > information, or maybe even use its classification of timezone groups, > but I don't think it can solve the problem for us. > > I think you may be thinking of yet a separate TODO item, which is to > be able to use the zic timezone names in timestamptz input, viz > '2006-05-24 21:11 Americas/New_York'::timestamptz > But names like 'IST' or 'CDT' are not zic timezone names, they just > represent specific offsets from UTC.
Well, the zic database does contain information about the abbreviations, so we would be able to build a list of them. I think the right solution is probably fix the above first (allow full zic timezones in timestamps) and then setup the CST/CEST/etc as a list of aliases users can customise... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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