On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@postgresql.org> writes:
>> echo $TZ returns nothing. =C2=A0We've checked several Ubuntu systems, an=
d it
>> seems that Ubuntu does not set $TZ.
>
> Red Hat doesn't either; I think this is a general habit on Linux
> distros.
If you are using glibc, this is expected/normal.
http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/TZ-Variable.html
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Jon