Re: [pgsql-hackers-win32] Weird new time zone

Tom Lane wrote:
> I thought about restricting the scope of the TZ testing to start in 1990
> or so to avoid this, but that seems certain to fall foul of the other
> problem, which is distinguishing closely-related timezones (cf Chris
> K-L discovering that he lives in Antarctica, a few days back...)
>
> Maybe the whole match-on-behavior approach is wrong and we need to do
> something else, but I'm really unsure what.  Ideas?

I threw out the matching idea to Magnus as a crazy idea, and I am
surprised we ended up actually using it, but I can't think of a less
crazy idea either.

If we can't find a timezone match should we start looking only from
+1990?

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