Re: New tzdata available

On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 10:04 +0000, Gregory Stark wrote:
> "Magnus Hagander" <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 02:56 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> >> Be fair --- the USA did give us a couple years' notice. 
> >
> > Not for the latest changes, IIRC. 
> 
> It didn't match my recollection either. But apparently Tom is almost right.
> The Energy Policy Act of 2005 established the new rules. It was introduced
> April 18th in the House and signed August 8th. The first effect it had was
> April 1st 2007, just slightly less than 2 years after being introduced.
> 
Those aren't the changes I'm talking about. Zdenek said it (I think it
was him), the Indiana changes are different.

But, that's irrelevant to this discussion, really. Politicians *will*
continue to do this :-)

//Magnus