From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM> |
Cc: | Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: New tzdata available |
Date: | 2007-11-08 16:05:16 |
Message-ID: | 20071108160516.GL2938@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Zdenek Kotala wrote:
> Devrim GÜNDÜZ napsal(a):
>> Hi,
>> ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007i.tar.gz
>> Per announcement:
>> "...is now available; this reflects changes for Cuba and Syria
>> circulated earlier this week on the time zone mailing list.
>> There are no code changes, so there's no tzcode2007i; tzcood2007h
>> remains current."
>
> I think we need some different mechanism how to deliver timezone updated.
> Bump version and rebuild everything when new timezone files are released is
> not good idea, especially in case when most unix packagers use system
> timezone.
Agreed.
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.
--
Alvaro Herrera Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org/
"¿Qué importan los años? Lo que realmente importa es comprobar que
a fin de cuentas la mejor edad de la vida es estar vivo" (Mafalda)
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