| src/timezone/tznames/README |
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| tznames |
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| This directory contains files with timezone sets for PostgreSQL. The problem |
| is that time zone abbreviations are not unique throughout the world and you |
| might find out that a time zone abbreviation in the `Default' set collides |
| with the one you wanted to use. All other files except for `Default' are |
| intended to override values from the `Default' set. So you might already have |
| a file here that serves your needs. If not, you can create your own. |
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| In order to use one of these files, you need to set |
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| timezone_abbreviations = 'xyz' |
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| in any of the usual ways for setting a parameter, where xyz is the filename |
| that contains the desired time zone names. |
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| If you do not find an appropriate set of time zone names for your geographic |
| location supplied here, please report this to <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>. |
| Your set of time zone names can then be included in future releases. |
| For the time being you can always add your own set. |
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| The files named Africa.txt, etc, are not intended to be used directly as |
| time zone abbreviation files. They contain reference definitions of time zone |
| names that can be copied into a custom abbreviation file as needed. |
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| Note that these files (*.txt) are already a subset of the zic timezone |
| database files: we tried to list only those time zones that (according to |
| the zic timezone database) appear to be still in use. |