Re: Confused by timezones

Tom Lane wrote:

> I'm guessing that's not a legal timezone name on your platform.
> On my box I have to spell it "PST8PDT" ... note that the displayed
> abbreviation is not the same as the name used to set the timezone.

I used PST as an example, but it doesn't work with any other zone,
including GMT (our localtime is EET). I suspect it's a configuration
problem on our Digital machine (with Digital Unix 4.0F): zoneinfos are
under /etc/zoneinfo. 

Do the functions use those files or it's just an OS call? Is configure
involved at all in this area?

Thanks again

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