Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> It sounds like a mind-numbingly tedious task though :-(
> Added to TODO:
> {{TodoItemEasy
> |Revise the src/timezone/tznames abbreviation files:
BTW, it just occurred to me to wonder whether we couldn't modify the
"zic" application to extract a list of all the abbrevs and their GMT
offsets from the tzdata source files. You'd still have a lot of manual
effort to classify the results, but this would eliminate one big part
of the drudgery...
regards, tom lane