Re: New timezone data

Bruce Momjian wrote:

>Michael Fuhr wrote:
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>>I see that new timezone data is available at
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>>ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/
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>>It looks like the only changes from PostgreSQL's current data involve
>>Kyrgyzstan and Uruguay.  What's the policy on keeping the source
>>code up to date?  Does the data change too often to bother except
>>just before a release?
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>Yea, probably.
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There's nothing magical about the files, is there? A user should be able 
to plug in a zic-compiled zone file from just about anywhere if they 
really need it, without having to update postgres, or I have badly 
misunderstood how we handle things. Of course, your OS might not come 
with such things (e.g. Windows), but it should not be a very big deal to 
obtain the file.

cheers

amdrew