Re: BUG #6637: Casablanca timezone is wrong

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 11:08 AM, =A0<dchuet@odotech.com> wrote:
>> The following bug has been logged on the website:
>>
>> Bug reference: =A0 =A0 =A06637
>> Logged by: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0David Chuet
>> Email address: =A0 =A0 =A0dchuet@odotech.com
>> PostgreSQL version: 9.0.7
>> Operating system: =A0 Windows 7 x64
>> Description:
>>
>> Using Postgresql command :
>>
>> ------------------------------------------
>> SELECT * FROM pg_timezone_names
>> ------------------------------------------
>> We get for Africa/Casablanca, timezone equal to WET with no DST.
>>
>> This is not true from 2010.
>> See Wikipedia, for Morocco:
>>
>> Time zone =A0 =A0 =A0 WET (UTC+0)
>> Summer (DST) =A0 =A0WEST (UTC+1)(May 2nd to August 7th)
>>
>> So, I cannot set correctly the DateTime for an install in Morocco.
>
> We get the time zone list from the operating system. =A0It might not be
> working correctly, but based on this amount of information I can't
> speculate as to why.

And of course now I see that (1) someone already replied to your
reposting of this bug and (2) what I just told you was completely
wrong.

Sorry for the noise.

--=20
Robert Haas
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