From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Trevor Talbot <quension(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)sun(dot)com>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: New tzdata available |
Date: | 2007-11-09 09:17:05 |
Message-ID: | 1194599825.6142.4.camel@mha-laptop.clients.sollentuna.se |
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On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 02:56 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)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.
Not for the latest changes, IIRC.
> 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.
Sure. But how can we do that for a platform that doesn't have compatible
zic files as part of the platform. I know Windows is such, I have no
idea if there are others, but that doesn't change the need to have a
solution for this case.
//Magnus
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