Re: New tzdata available

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 02:26 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Plan B would be to take out contracts on all the banana-republic
>> politicians who think that changing DST laws with a month's notice
>> is a pleasant pastime.  I fear we lack the resources for that,
>> unfortunately.

> You're referring to countries like the United States and New Zealand ;-)

Be fair --- the USA did give us a couple years' notice.  Though I'm
still prepared to vote against any congresscritter who stands up and
says that was a good idea.  (I'm still driving a car whose GPS does not
know about the change, and if any political animal happens to be reading
this: it is not a good idea to tick off your constituents in the week
before November elections.)

> On a more serious note, we *could* make a simple ZIP file available with
> files to drop in the timezone directory for such urgent updates, since
> the majority of users don't need them.

Sure, it's doable if anyone cares that much.  But I think we should
spend more energy on scheming how not to be involved.
        regards, tom lane