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Debian 13, Postgres, and the US/* time zones

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283 points move-on-by | 1 comments | 12 Sep 25 02:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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op00to ◴[12 Sep 25 13:06 UTC] No.45221709[source]▶
I feel like I’ve been using America/New_York for a decade at least. Am I misremembering?
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1. umanwizard ◴[12 Sep 25 15:05 UTC] No.45222922[source]▶
That’s one of the normal Continent/City time zones, not one of the weird Country/ZoneName ones that have been deprecated for ages. “America” here refers to the continent or continents[0], not the USA.

0: Note that different cultures disagree on whether there are two continents called North America and South America, or one continent called America.