Hi,
On 2019-06-04 17:20:42 +0100, Andrew Gierth wrote:
> fwiw on FreeBSD with no /etc/localtime and no TZ in the environment (and
> hence running on UTC), I get "UCT" on both 11.3 and HEAD.
That makes sense. As far as I can tell the reason that 12 sometimes ends
up with the proper timezone is that we shortcut the search by:
/*
* Try to avoid the brute-force search by seeing if we can recognize the
* system's timezone setting directly.
*
* Currently we just check /etc/localtime; there are other conventions
for
* this, but that seems to be the only one used on enough platforms to
be
* worth troubling over.
*/
if (check_system_link_file("/etc/localtime", &tt, resultbuf))
return resultbuf;
which is actually a behaviour changing, rather than just an
optimization, when there's a lot of equivalently scoring timezones.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
