[tz] NetBSD vs Darwin timezone API (was: tzdata2016g missing version info)

Guy Harris guy at alum.mit.edu
Thu Nov 10 23:25:14 UTC 2016


On Nov 10, 2016, at 3:17 PM, Tom Lane <tgl at sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> FWIW, I beg to differ on that.  I know this will break Postgres, which
> is doing pretty much the same thing as Emacs, ie relying on a lot of calls
> to localtime() to infer the system's active timezone.  We only do that
> once during database initialization, so we're not badly exposed, but
> nonetheless this is another data point suggesting that programs in the
> field do have this assumption.

So I shouldn't run Postgres on any Mac that I can conveniently carry while it's running, because if I carry the Mac into a car, train, airplane, or boat, the system's active time zone might change out from under Postgres. :-)

Why does Postgres need to know the system's active time zone?


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