On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> If you mean you would like to use Windows' timezone data, the answer is > you can't --- and you generally shouldn't want to, because AFAIK their > timezone data is pretty sucky: it's incomplete and not terribly accurate > about historical details. We use the IANA timezone database[1], which is > where those names like Asia/Calcutta come from. > > Most modern operating systems use the IANA database for their system-level > timezone knowledge, but Windows is still in the dark ages last I heard. > > regards, tom lane > Hmm. Is there any postgreSQL command/binary which can be used to set timezone according to OS one. At the time of postgreSQL install how does it pick timezone information and sets into postgreSQL.conf accordingly. Regards...
