On 09/29/2011 10:50 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
Christophe Pettus<xof@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I am baffled. Both PDT and WEST appear as valid timezone abbreviations, and each have unique values, but:
Where do you see WEST as a valid timezone abbrevation? It's not listed
in the "Default" abbreviation list. (Perhaps it should be, since there
don't seem to be any places that don't consider it GMT+1 summer time.)
regards, tom lane
select * from pg_timezone_names where abbrev = 'WEST' ;
name | abbrev | utc_offset | is_dst
------------------------+--------+------------+--------
Portugal | WEST | 01:00:00 | t
posix/Portugal | WEST | 01:00:00 | t
posix/WET | WEST | 01:00:00 | t
posix/Europe/Lisbon | WEST | 01:00:00 | t
posix/Atlantic/Canary | WEST | 01:00:00 | t
posix/Atlantic/Faeroe | WEST | 01:00:00 | t
posix/Atlantic/Madeira | WEST | 01:00:00 | t
posix/Atlantic/Faroe | WEST | 01:00:00 | t
WET | WEST | 01:00:00 | t
Europe/Lisbon | WEST | 01:00:00 | t
Atlantic/Canary | WEST | 01:00:00 | t
Atlantic/Faeroe | WEST | 01:00:00 | t
Atlantic/Madeira | WEST | 01:00:00 | t
Atlantic/Faroe | WEST | 01:00:00 | t
(14 rows)
It's interesting that there are (in my install of 9.1):
1174 distinct timezone names (all records are unique) in pg_timezone_names.
181 distinct abbreviations in pg_timezone_names
189 distinct timezone abbreviations (all unique abbreviations) in
pg_timezone_abbrevs.
But 61 abbreviations that appear in pg_timezone_names do not have a
corresponding entry in pg_timezone_abbrevs and 69 abbreviations in
pg_timezone_abbrevs that don't appear in pg_timezone_names.
There are 56 records and 3 different offsets in pg_timezone_names for
the abbreviation 'CST'.
I try to use timezone names instead of abbreviations wherever possible.
Cheers,
Steve
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