Re: [GENERAL] Determining/Setting a server's time zone

2009-03-23 Thread Tom Lane
Madison Kelly writes: >Server (PostgreSQL 8.1): > $ date > Mon Mar 23 20:07:20 EDT 2009 > db=> show timezone; > TimeZone > -- > GMT > (1 row) Hmm. Apparently, this machine is configured so that TZ is set properly in the environment of user login processes (perhaps in /etc/profil

Re: [GENERAL] Determining/Setting a server's time zone

2009-03-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Madison Kelly wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: >> >> Madison Kelly writes: >>> >>>   How/Where does PostgreSQL set or determine the local time zone? >> >> Well, "show timezone" will tell you what PG is using.  Where it came >> from is a bit harder to answer.  The default

Re: [GENERAL] Determining/Setting a server's time zone

2009-03-23 Thread Madison Kelly
Tom Lane wrote: Madison Kelly writes: How/Where does PostgreSQL set or determine the local time zone? Well, "show timezone" will tell you what PG is using. Where it came from is a bit harder to answer. The default is to use whatever zone is current according to the postmaster's startup e

Re: [GENERAL] Determining/Setting a server's time zone

2009-03-23 Thread Tom Lane
Madison Kelly writes: >How/Where does PostgreSQL set or determine the local time zone? Well, "show timezone" will tell you what PG is using. Where it came from is a bit harder to answer. The default is to use whatever zone is current according to the postmaster's startup environment, and th

[GENERAL] Determining/Setting a server's time zone

2009-03-23 Thread Madison Kelly
Hi, How/Where does PostgreSQL set or determine the local time zone? On my server, I am seeing (+00): db=> SELECT now(); now --- 2009-03-23 22:32:47.595491+00 (1 row) But on my workstation I am seeing (-04): db=> SELECT now(); now ---