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diff --git a/contrib/postgres_fdw/connection.c b/contrib/postgres_fdw/connection.c
index 5187ea8..db2a2c4 100644
--- a/contrib/postgres_fdw/connection.c
+++ b/contrib/postgres_fdw/connection.c
@@ -612,10 +612,12 @@ configure_remote_session(PGconn *conn)
* anyway. However it makes the regression test outputs more predictable.
*
* We don't risk setting remote zone equal to ours, since the remote
- * server might use a different timezone database. Instead, use UTC
- * (quoted, because very old servers are picky about case).
+ * server might use a different timezone database. Instead, use GMT
+ * (quoted, because very old servers are picky about case). That's
+ * guaranteed to work regardless of the remote's timezone database,
+ * because pg_tzset() hard-wires it (at least in PG 9.2 and later).
*/
- do_sql_command(conn, "SET timezone = 'UTC'");
+ do_sql_command(conn, "SET timezone = 'GMT'");
/*
* Set values needed to ensure unambiguous data output from remote. (This