Re: Australian timezone configure option

I have decided to make this configurable via postgresql.conf so you
don't need separate binaries / configure switch to run in Australia. I
will send a patch over for testing.

> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Could we also trouble you for documentation patches? IIRC, there's a
> > list of all interesting configure options somewhere in the
> > administrator's guide.
>
>
> Documentation ? We don't need no steenking documentation!...
>
>
> diff -ur postgresql-7.1.2.orig/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml postgresql-7.1.2/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
> --- postgresql-7.1.2.orig/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml Tue May 15 01:11:31 2001
> +++ postgresql-7.1.2/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml Wed Jun 6 10:35:30 2001
> @@ -462,6 +462,20 @@
> </varlistentry>
>
> <varlistentry>
> + <term>--enable-australian-tz</term>
> + <listitem>
> + <para>
> + Enables Australian timezone support. This changes the interpretation
> + of timezones in input date/time strings from US-centric to
> + Australian-centric. Specifically, 'EST' is changed from GMT-5 (US
> + Eastern Standard Time) to GMT+10 (Australian Eastern Standard Time)
> + and 'CST' is changed from GMT-5:30 (US Central Standard Time) to
> + GMT+10:30 (Australian Central Standard Time).
> + </para>
> + </listitem>
> + </varlistentry>
> +
> + <varlistentry>
> <term>--enable-locale</term>
> <listitem>
> <para>
>
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