Re: determining supported timezones

TODO?

    *  Show supported times

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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >I am trying to figure out if there is a way to determine the timezones
> >supported in postgresql from within the database. If you look at
> >http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/datetime-keywords.html it
> >notes that time zone information is system dependent, (I interpret to
> >mean that anything I find in /usr/share/zoneinfo on linux should be
> >supported, can someone confirm that?)
>
> Yes, that should be it.
>
>
> > so how can an external app
> >determine which timezones are supported given that it could be deployed
> >against postgresql databases on different OS's.  My current thinking is
> >that there is no way to get a complete list, but perhaps the list of
> >known timezones (as listed in the docs) are available?  If it is not,
> >will this change in 7.5 now that we have a standard timezone library we
> >are using across platforms?
>
> In 7.5, you can check the files in <pgdir>/share/timezone. There is no
> function in the backend ATM to show them. I've been thinking of adding
> one (as a system view), but didn't get around to it before freeze. (It'd
> basically loop over the files in the directory)
>
> //Magnus
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