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Re: Postgres and /etc/localtime, was: /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime !?



Michael Bravo wrote:
  >On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 03:18:23AM -0500, Brian Ristuccia wrote:
  >> I found that Netscape sends messages with the timestamps in GMT/UTC instea
      >d
  >> of the local time zone if /usr/share/zoneinfo/localtime is not a symlink t
      >o
  >> /etc/localtime.
  >
  >Speaking of which, I installed potato several days before the New Year
  >(probably got broken base system with it as well), and PostgreSQL
  >postinstall script failed when trying to guess the datestyle, because
  >it was looking for /etc/localtime being a *directory*

Noted.  When I wrote that script, /etc/localtime was a symbolic link
to a directory; that seems to have changed very recently.

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