[OT?] Time-zone database down [was: Re: timezone buglet?]

On 10/05/2011 07:37 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> daveg<daveg(at)sonic(dot)net> writes:
>> Postgresql 9.0.4 has the timezone:
>> America/Blanc-Sablon
>> However other sources seem to spell this with an underscore instead of dash:
>> America/Blanc_Sablon
>
> I don't know what "other sources" you're consulting, but "Blanc-Sablon"
> is the way it appears in the Olson timezone database, and that's what
> we follow.

Speaking of Olson tz database, I've just stumbled across this post
and I thought it would be worthy to report it here:

http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html

> We're not going to get into the business of editorializing
> on their information. If you want to fool with it locally, look into
> the .../share/timezone/ directory.
>
> regards, tom lane