Re: Redhat 7.3 time manipulation bug

Tom Lane wrote:
> It seems to me that it'd be really practical to just take what we
> need out of this distribution and forgo all dependency on
> system-provided timezone databases. And, since there's a mailing
> list maintaining it, we could expect someone else to handle updates
> ;-) ... we'd just have to be careful to use the database files
> unmodified, so that we could drop in new releases from time to time.
>
> Comments? Anyone want to do the legwork?
>

I don't understand precisely what need to be done, but I'll give it a
shot if you get me pointed in the right direction.

<downloads and looks at code>
I see that tzcode2002c.tar.gz includes a mktime() function. Is the idea
to pull this out (with just whatever support it needs), incorporate it
into PostgreSQL source (perhaps in a new src/backend/utils/tz directory)
and use this in place of the system provided mktime()?

Joe