Re: New tzdata available

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: 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: 2007-11-08 21:23:21
Message-ID: 19685.1194557001@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> For people using prebuilt packages, it's really the packager's problem.
>> I think most packagers are going to move to depending on a system
>> timezone DB if at all possible.

> Still need a solution for those where it's not possible (hint: Windows).
> Not saying it has to be what's there now, but there has to be something
> workable.

Are Windows users accustomed to having up-to-the-minute timezone
information? Maybe there's something I don't know about Microsoft's
update practices, but I would have thought that the expectations on that
platform would be pretty darn low.

regards, tom lane

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