On 06/07/2019 06:16, Mark Rotteveel wrote: > > 1. The minimal thing that can and should be done to address the problem > that kicked off this email thread, is to ensure that `decodeTimestampTz` > has a fallback if ICU is not available to render named zones properly > (that is: render the time as UTC or +00:00 which is 1) possible with the > current information available and 2) an acceptable fallback). >
The fallback is there already: caller can detect problem and do what he wants. Automatically change something that may be re-entered as input and saved to the DB in a different way is very problematic and should not be done. Adriano Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel