>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
>> Pacific/Auckland -> NZ
Thomas> Right. On a FreeBSD system here in New Zealand you get "NZ"
Thomas> with default configure options (ie using PostgreSQL's tzdata).
Thomas> But if you build with --with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo
Thomas> you get "Pacific/Auckland", and that's because the FreeBSD
Thomas> zoneinfo directory doesn't include the old non-city names like
Thomas> "NZ", "GB", "Japan", "US/Eastern" etc. (Unfortunately the
Thomas> FreeBSD packages for PostgreSQL are not being built with that
Thomas> option so initdb chooses the old names. Something to take up
Thomas> with the maintainers.)
Same issue here with Europe/London getting "GB".
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