Re: Australian timezone configure option

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 06:52:52PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> 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.


Great, that's better than a configure option...


> > 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 @@
> >        
> >  
> >        
> > +       --enable-australian-tz
> > +       
> > +        
> > +         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).
> > +        
> > +       
> > +      
> > +
> > +      
> >         --enable-locale
> >         
> >