Re: Tom Lane 2019-06-04 <65800.1559662...@sss.pgh.pa.us> > > There is something wrong here. On Debian Buster/unstable, using > > system tzdata (2019a-1), if /etc/timezone is "Etc/UTC": > > Is your build using --with-system-tzdata? If so, which tzdb > release is the system on, and is it a completely stock copy > of that release?
It's using system tzdata (2019a-1). There's one single patch on top of that: https://sources.debian.org/src/tzdata/2019a-1/debian/patches/ > BTW, does Debian set up /etc/timezone as a symlink, by any chance, > rather than a copy or hard link? If it's a symlink, we could improve > matters by teaching identify_system_timezone() to inspect it. In the meantime I realized that I was only testing /etc/timezone (which is a plain file with just the zone name), while not touching /etc/localtime at all. In this environment, it's a symlink: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Mär 28 14:49 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Etc/UTC ... but the name still gets canonicalized to Etc/UCT or UCT. Christoph
