Re: Timezone bugs

Jeff Trout wrote:
>
> On Jul 21, 2005, at 11:57 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > works fine now. It will also obey whatever DST rules were in
> effect at
> > just that date, which the previous implementation did not.
>
> Speaking of that, would the nearly passed US bill to extend daylight
> savings screw up our timezone & dst things?
>
> http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/consumerawareness/a/dstextend.htm
>
> (nutshell summary: DST would be changed from april-oct to mar-nov)
>
> afaik it has passed the house & senate it just needs the prez to sign
> it.

It means we would have to update our timezone database, and perhaps
backpatch the fix to 8.0.X.

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