Seems we had the wrong sign convention for the default Etc/GMTx zone

names.  Per report from Alvaro.
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Tom Lane 2004-05-23 23:26:53 +00:00
parent 9e0fcc2ad5
commit 17edb84056
1 changed files with 8 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
* Portions Copyright (c) 1996-2003, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
*
* IDENTIFICATION
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/timezone/pgtz.c,v 1.12 2004/05/23 22:24:08 tgl Exp $
* $PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/timezone/pgtz.c,v 1.13 2004/05/23 23:26:53 tgl Exp $
*
*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
@ -219,9 +219,14 @@ identify_system_timezone(void)
if (try_timezone(__tzbuf, &tt, dst_found))
return __tzbuf;
/* Did not find the timezone. Fallback to try a GMT zone. */
/*
* Did not find the timezone. Fallback to try a GMT zone. Note that the
* zic timezone database names the GMT-offset zones in POSIX style: plus
* is west of Greenwich. It's unfortunate that this is opposite of SQL
* conventions. Should we therefore change the names? Probably not...
*/
sprintf(__tzbuf, "Etc/GMT%s%d",
(-tt.std_ofs < 0) ? "+" : "", tt.std_ofs / 3600);
(-tt.std_ofs > 0) ? "+" : "", -tt.std_ofs / 3600);
ereport(LOG,
(errmsg("could not recognize system timezone, defaulting to \"%s\"",
__tzbuf),