On Mar 14, 2007, at 2:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Should work to just copy over the timezone directory tree from a
> correct
> installation on the same machine architecture (I can't recall right
> now
> if the file format is machine-dependent or not). You might have to
> restart the postmaster too, before it starts behaving entirely sanely.
The compiled zone info files are compatible across time and space.
I just copied the correct US Eastern time zone file from an amd64
FreeBSD 6.1 system onto a NSLU2 running a hacked embedded linux using
an arm chip (I use it as an NFS file server) and it did the right thing.