From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
Cc: | Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Anyone want to update our Windows timezone map? |
Date: | 2016-08-15 21:40:40 |
Message-ID: | 28209.1471297240@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> We have certainly not been doing that on a regular basis (as best I can
>> tell, no such changes have been made since 2010). Does anybody who uses
>> Windows want to deal with it? Or at least do it once so that our Windows
>> TZ info is less than 5 years out of date?
> By the way, I noticed that Unicode CLDR publishes this data set which
> seems to be the same sort of thing:
> http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/29/supplemental/zone_tzid.html
> Could that be a better source than dumping stuff from arbitrary
> Windows versions?
Well, the point is that we need to recognize the timezone names that
Windows actually uses. A list of strings that's more or less the same
doesn't really cut it ...
regards, tom lane
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