Re: Time zone database

On 03.03.2011 20:45, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> Today on the ietf-applications list, I saw this:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg02301.html
>
> If there are particular issues with respect to the time zone database
> stuff that you all have struggled with and want highlighted, feel free
> to send them to me and I'll try to figure out whether they're relevant
> to this Internet Draft and the new plans. I will be at the IETF
> meeting in Prague, though I won't plan to attend the session in
> question unless someone tells me I ought.
>
> If none of this is relevant to Postgres, sorry for the noise. I just
> saw it in passing and remember some of the annoyances that happened in
> the past.

Yes, we use David Olson's tz database. According to this proposal, David
Olson is retiring, and they propose that IETF takes over maintainership
of the tz database.

The idea seems to be that the work to keep the database and tz code
current would continue like before, just in the hands of different
people, so I don't think this affects us in any way.

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Heikki Linnakangas
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