No, you can't. The reason there is no "nonvolatile" list of timezones
is that timezones are subject to the whims of politicians, who can and
do change them at the drop of a hat. Read the historical comments in
the zic source files sometime...
It used to be that "fully one third of timezones in
Tom Lane wrote:
> Naz Gassiep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Ok, that's kinda cool. But can I trust those names to not change from
>> version to version?
>>
>
> No, you can't. The reason there is no "nonvolatile" list of timezones
> is that timezones are subject to the whims of politicia
Naz Gassiep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ok, that's kinda cool. But can I trust those names to not change from
> version to version?
No, you can't. The reason there is no "nonvolatile" list of timezones
is that timezones are subject to the whims of politicians, who can and
do change them at the
Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> alvherre=# select * from pg_timezone_names ;
>name | abbrev | utc_offset | is_dst
> --+++
> Africa/Algiers | CET| 01:00:00 | f
> Africa/Luanda
Naz Gassiep wrote:
> I've been trying to sort out the answer to this question for a while
> now, I've received different answers from different places.
>
> I'm looking for a definitive non-volatile list of timezones for use in a
> web application. I can't use the OS's time zone list, as changing O
