On 2019-11-23 12:05:11 (-0500), Tom Lane wrote:
Paul Gilmartin via tz <tz@iana.org> writes:
On 2019-11-22, at 23:06:01, John Pye wrote:
I have been a bit surprised that the TZDATA database lacks a listing for "Australia/Canberra", population 350,000...
??? 637 $ ls -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Canberra -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2197 Sep 17 15:57 /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Canberra
Yup, it's there, as a link in the "backward" file:
Link Australia/Sydney Australia/Canberra
I speculate that the OP is on FreeBSD, or some other platform where they don't install the "backwards compatibility" links by default.
Maybe we should lobby FreeBSD to install those names so they're more like everybody else. I got burned by their incompatibility in this area just the other day [1].
regards, tom lane
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/12931.1573846697%40sss.pgh.pa.us#...
I can probably be convinced to change that with the next update. ;-) I've made a note. I follow tzdata releases pretty closely and try not to diverge from upstream. Not installing backzone links predates my maintaining tzdata in FreeBSD. Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Alternative Enterprises