Re: Production systems beware: U.S. Daylight Savings Time comes at a new time this year

From: Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Production systems beware: U.S. Daylight Savings Time comes at a new time this year
Date: 2007-02-01 22:40:30
Message-ID: 45C26C5E.2070906@cox.net
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On 02/01/07 15:15, Richard Troy wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> it was recently brought to my attention that last year the U.S. altered
> the dates when Daylight Savings Time starts and ends. Many if not most
> computers presume the old change dates and therefore, if left to change
> automatically, will change at the wrong times. This will be vital for
> people in the database community who manage applications that need
> accurate timestamps.

Your distro (or *BSD) should supply updated tz data, no?

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