Re: Australian timezone configure option

I have decided to make this configurable via postgresql.conf so you
don't need separate binaries / configure switch to run in Australia.  I
will send a patch over for testing.


> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Could we also trouble you for documentation patches?  IIRC, there's a
> > list of all interesting configure options somewhere in the
> > administrator's guide.
>
>
> Documentation ?  We don't need no steenking documentation!...
>
>
> diff -ur postgresql-7.1.2.orig/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml postgresql-7.1.2/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
> --- postgresql-7.1.2.orig/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml    Tue May 15 01:11:31 2001
> +++ postgresql-7.1.2/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml    Wed Jun  6 10:35:30 2001
> @@ -462,6 +462,20 @@
>        </varlistentry>
>
>        <varlistentry>
> +       <term>--enable-australian-tz</term>
> +       <listitem>
> +        <para>
> +         Enables Australian timezone support. This changes the interpretation
> +         of timezones in input date/time strings from US-centric to
> +         Australian-centric.  Specifically, 'EST' is changed from GMT-5 (US
> +         Eastern Standard Time) to GMT+10 (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
> +         and 'CST' is changed from GMT-5:30 (US Central Standard Time) to
> +         GMT+10:30 (Australian Central Standard Time).
> +        </para>
> +       </listitem>
> +      </varlistentry>
> +
> +      <varlistentry>
>         <term>--enable-locale</term>
>         <listitem>
>          <para>
>
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