Re: [HACKERS] 6.1 issues resolved

> If you set TZ="PST8PDT" on my machine, you get Bruce's results.
>
> If you set TZ="PST8PDT7,M04.01.00,M10.05.03" on my machine, you get my
> original regression results!

> 3) Bruce was not following the directions for the regression test :))
> (or his USE_POSIX_TIME but !HAVE_INT_TIMEZONE machine does not exhibit
> the bug, a more likely scenerio but it's more fun to needle Bruce...)

Correct.  I have never seen such a long TZ string, nor would I expect it
to work, but I am probably wrong.  I think PST8PDT is pretty simple, and
I would think all platforms we support use it in a similar manner.

> OK, so here is the question:
> Should we assume that every installation environment has a PST8PDT
> timezone database installed, or should we have the regression tests use
> the full-length TZ assignment which produces a few bad-but-consistant
> values on many/most platforms??

PST8PDT


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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us

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