I am experiencing this error trying to set the connection time zone to UTC on PostgreSQL 8.4.4: postgres=# set time zone 'UTC'; ERROR: unrecognized time zone name: "UTC" I have read the documentation for timezone_abbreviations, and everything looked in order, at least as far as my limited knowledge takes me: postgres=# show timezone_abbreviations; timezone_abbreviations ------------------------ Default (1 row) $ grep UTC `pg_config --sharedir`/timezonesets/Default UTC 0 # Coordinated Universal Time Setting the time zone to 'CST6CDT' appears to work fine: postgres=# set time zone 'CST6CDT'; SET Is there something I'm doing wrong here? I have a slightly odd configuration (Gentoo Prefix Portage on Mac OS X, with a custom ebuild) so the problem may well be with my system setup. But I'd appreciate any pointers folks may have as to where to troubleshoot. Thanks! -be -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general