Re: Timezone bugs

Jeff Trout wrote:
> 
> On Jul 21, 2005, at 11:57 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
>  >    works fine now. It will also obey whatever DST rules were in  
> effect at
>  >    just that date, which the previous implementation did not.
> 
> Speaking of that, would the nearly passed US bill to extend daylight  
> savings screw up our timezone & dst things?
> 
> http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/consumerawareness/a/dstextend.htm
> 
> (nutshell summary: DST would be changed from april-oct to mar-nov)
> 
> afaik it has passed the house & senate it just needs the prez to sign  
> it.

It means we would have to update our timezone database, and perhaps
backpatch the fix to 8.0.X.

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