Re: tzdata 2025b

On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Masahiko Sawada <sawada(dot)mshk(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > tzdata 2025b has been released on 3/22[1]. Do we need to update the
> > tzdata.zi file on HEAD and backbranches?
>
> Yup, eventually, but I don't normally worry about it until we are
> approaching a release date. tzdata changes often come in bunches
> around the spring and fall equinoxes, which is when governments
> tend to rush out DST changes without thinking about lead times :-(.
> So it's entirely possible that 2025b will already be obsolete by May.
> (See for example ecbac3e6e and d8fc45bd0, when I thought I'd waited
> long enough and was wrong.)
>
> The situation might be different with a tzdata release that affects
> our regression test results, but I don't believe this one does.
>

Thank you for the explanation! That makes sense. We'll revisit it
around minor release.

Regards,

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