Wells Oliver <wells.oliver@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 0000000 P G D M P 001 016 \0 004 \b 003 001 001 \0 \0 \0 > 0000020 \0 4 \0 \0 \0 \0 - \0 \0 \0 \0 \t \0 \0 \0 \0 > 0000040 \v \0 \0 \0 \0 005 \0 \0 \0 \0 y \0 \0 \0 \0 001 > 0000060 \0 \0 \0 \0 \b \0 \0 \0 b o x s c o r e > 0000100 \0 \0 \0 \0 1 3 . 2 ( U b u n t > 0000120 u 1 3 . 2 - 1 . p g d g 1 8 . > 0000140 0 4 + 1 ) \0 \0 \0 \0 1 3 . 2 ( > 0000160 U b u n t u 1 3 . 2 - 1 . p g > 0000200 d g 1 8 . 0 4 + 1 ) \0 \t ! \0 \0 \0 > 0000220 E S \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 001 \0 \0 \0 0 \0 Hpmh ... nothing weird looking about that: it decodes as 0000000 P G D M P 001 016 \0 004 \b 003 001 001 \0 \0 \0 maj min rev int off fmt compression = -1 .. 0000020 \0 4 \0 \0 \0 \0 - \0 \0 \0 \0 \t \0 \0 \0 \0 sec = 4 .......... min = 45 ......... hr = 9 ........... md 0000040 \v \0 \0 \0 \0 005 \0 \0 \0 \0 y \0 \0 \0 \0 001 ay = 11 ...... mon = 5 .......... year = 121 ........ isdst 0000060 \0 \0 \0 \0 \b \0 \0 \0 b o x s c o r e = 1 ...... dbname length .... [ plays around a bit ... ] How interesting: on my RHEL8 box, feeding those values to mktime() works just fine in either local time or UTC: $ TZ=EST5EDT ./a.out result = 1623419104, errno = 0 (Success) $ TZ=UTC ./a.out result = 1623404704, errno = 0 (Success) But on a nearby Fedora 34 box: $ TZ=EST5EDT ./a.out result = 1623419104, errno = 0 (Success) $ TZ=UTC ./a.out result = -1, errno = 75 (Value too large for defined data type) The newer glibc version does indeed seem to think that isdst=1 is invalid in the UTC zone. If I change that to isdst=-1 ("don't know") then it's happy again: $ TZ=UTC ./a.out result = 1623404704, errno = 0 (Success) So, once again, the glibc crew have decided they're smarter than POSIX and changed the behavior of stable-for-decades APIs. Oh well. What I'm inclined to do about this is to try first with the values as given, and if we get a failure, try again with isdst = -1. Really, using localtime output as the file date representation was a damfool idea. It's less portable not more so, if you ask me; and the fact that it loses timezone information means that it's actually impossible to reconstruct the timestamp accurately when pg_restore is run in a different zone than pg_dump was. I don't think it's worth bumping the archive version just for this; but next time we have need to do that, we should seriously consider replacing this mess with a straight seconds-since-the-Epoch timestamp. regards, tom lane