Re: Timezone fun (bugs and a request)

Oliver Jowett wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com> writes:
> > 
> >>Also, unless I'm missing something, shouldn't Chile (Alvaro's timezone?) 
> >>be behind GMT (GMT-something) not ahead of it (GMT+something)?
> > 
> > 
> > Part of the confusion here is that the zone names in the zic database
> > follow POSIX rules: plus is west of Greenwich.  AFAICS it's doing the
> > right thing in selecting Etc/GMT-12 for you.
> 
> Ew! That's disgusting! What possessed POSIX to do this the opposite way 
> to pretty much everything else?

You want ugly, look at how we find the system timezone --- we scan
forward for 14 months looking at the timezone abbreviations returned by
the operating system.

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