Rudy Lippan <rlippan@remotelinux.com> writes:
> postgres@war PGDATA $ date
> Sat Dec 14 02:12:00 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 2002
You've got a moderately broken platform there, IMHO. Everyone else in
the world defaults to GMT behavior if no recognizable timezone is set.
But if you can provide a stack trace showing just where the backend is
choking, we could try to defend against this.
regards, tom lane