>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
>>> Anyway, moving on to the question of what should we do about this, >>> I don't really have anything better to offer than back-patching >>> 23bd3cec6. >> The PG12 behavior seems sane, so +1. Tom> OK, I'll make that happen. This isn't good enough, because it still picks "UCT" on a system with no /etc/localtime and no TZ variable. Testing on HEAD as of 3da73d683 (on FreeBSD, but it'll be the same anywhere else): % ls -l /etc/*time* ls: /etc/*time*: No such file or directory % env -u TZ bin/initdb -D data -E UTF8 --no-locale [...] selecting default timezone ... UCT We need to absolutely prefer UTC over UCT if both match. -- Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)