Re: New tzdata available

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Zdenek Kotala wrote:
>>> I think we need some different mechanism how to deliver timezone updated.
>
>> Even when the system TZ is not used, we could deliver our "zic"
>> executable (pgzic?) and let the user drop the latest tzdata somewhere
>> and recompile it.
>
> Well, a person who builds from source has already got the zic program;
> all we need do is document someplace (more visible than now) how to drop
> the tzdata update into the source tree and reinstall the files.
>
> 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.

//Magnus