diff --git a/src/backend/utils/adt/nabstime.c b/src/backend/utils/adt/nabstime.c
index 58f4109e8c486b5b2a7eebd0cd0f9de8da4b21d3..11811c9117b4af4bbec0fd46b08ed7b6419616b1 100644
--- a/src/backend/utils/adt/nabstime.c
+++ b/src/backend/utils/adt/nabstime.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  *
  *
  * IDENTIFICATION
- *    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/nabstime.c,v 1.15 1997/03/18 16:35:20 scrappy Exp $
+ *    $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/backend/utils/adt/nabstime.c,v 1.16 1997/03/21 18:53:28 scrappy Exp $
  *
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
  */
@@ -62,13 +62,13 @@ GetCurrentAbsoluteTime(void)
 	CTimeZone = - tmnow->tm_gmtoff;	/* tm_gmtoff is Sun/DEC-ism */
 	CDayLight = (tmnow->tm_isdst > 0);
 	/* XXX is there a better way to get local timezone string in V7? - tgl 97/03/18 */
-	strftime( CTZName, "%Z", localtime(&now));
+	strftime( CTZName, 8, "%Z", localtime(&now));
 #endif
 #else /* ! USE_POSIX_TIME */
 	CTimeZone = tbnow.timezone * 60;
 	CDayLight = (tbnow.dstflag != 0);
 	/* XXX does this work to get the local timezone string in V7? - tgl 97/03/18 */
-	strftime( CTZName, "%Z", localtime(&now));
+	strftime( CTZName, 8, "%Z", localtime(&now));
 #endif 
     };