Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 03:08:59PM -0300, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Add code to identify_system_timezone() to try all zones in the zic
> > database, not just ones that we cons up POSIX names for. This looks
> > grim but it seems to take less than a second even on a relatively slow
> > machine, and since it only happens once during postmaster startup, that
> > seems acceptable.
>
> Is it possible to execute this at initdb time to set the default
> timezone in postgresql.conf? The user could get a message about what
> timezone was selected, and be offered a --command-line-switch to select
> a specific one.
>
> Just an idea ...
But if they change the OS timezone, we need to track that on postmaster
restart.
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