On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, John R Pierce wrote:
> as we discovered the hard way, named timezones are a BAD IDEA. We had some
> stuff in java + jdbc + postgres that used a timezone, when it was brought up in
> Singapore, their local timezone memnonic wasn't recognized by postgres, and
> when it was brought up in China, CST was misinterpretted as Central Standard
> Time rather than China Standard Time (about 12 hours off)
>
No, this indicates that *abbreviated* timezones are a bad idea, not named
timezones.
Kris Jurka