Re: Time Zone in Postgres

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Shilpa Sudhakar wrote:
>> From 2008, the DST ends on first Sunday of April and not on the last Sun
>> of March.

> Please report this issue to the guys maintaining the TZ database
> upstream:

You sure they don't know about it already?

# southeast Australia
#
# From Paul Eggert (2007-07-23):
# Starting autumn 2008 Victoria, NSW, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT
# end DST the first Sunday in April and start DST the first Sunday in October.
# http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/daylight-savings-to-span-six-months/2007/06/27/1182623966703.html

This is in our releases 8.2.5 and up.  If the OP wants to live under a
government that feels free to whack DST laws around on a couple months'
notice, he's got to be prepared to keep up with software updates.

            regards, tom lane