Re: Add FET to Default and Europe.txt

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 02:46:03PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
> Bruce,
>
> > The Postgres community does not maintain the timezone database; we ship
> > copies of the IANA timezone database; you will have to request the
> > changes from them:
> >
> > http://www.iana.org/time-zones
>
> Please take a second look at the diffs, they do *NOT* change the files
> in the timezone database, they change the Default set ot timezones that
> PostgreSQL uses.
>
> These files are maintained by PostgreSQL, there is even a README with an
> explicit mention that changes should be reported to pgsql-hackers....
>

Oops, I see what you mean now. I thought everything under src/timezone
was copied from others, but obviously I was wrong.

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> > On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:18:43AM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
> >> The attached patch would add the FET timezone abbreviation to the
> >> Default list _and_ the list of european abbreviations.
> >>
> >> - mb
> >
> >> diff --git a/src/timezone/tznames/Default b/src/timezone/tznames/Default
> >> index 1369f47..7223ce5 100644
> >> --- a/src/timezone/tznames/Default
> >> +++ b/src/timezone/tznames/Default
> >> @@ -615,6 +615,8 @@ EETDST 10800 D # East-Egypt Summertime
> >> # (Europe/Uzhgorod)
> >> # (Europe/Vilnius)
> >> # (Europe/Zaporozhye)
> >> +FET 10800 # Further-eastern European Time
> >> + # (Europe/Minsk)
> >> MEST 7200 D # Middle Europe Summer Time (not in zic)
> >> MET 3600 # Middle Europe Time (not in zic)
> >> METDST 7200 D # Middle Europe Summer Time (not in zic)
> >> diff --git a/src/timezone/tznames/Europe.txt b/src/timezone/tznames/Europe.txt
> >> index 88abecca..6c35ab1 100644
> >> --- a/src/timezone/tznames/Europe.txt
> >> +++ b/src/timezone/tznames/Europe.txt
> >> @@ -154,6 +154,8 @@ EETDST 10800 D # East-Egypt Summertime
> >> # (Europe/Uzhgorod)
> >> # (Europe/Vilnius)
> >> # (Europe/Zaporozhye)
> >> +FET 10800 # Further-eastern European Time
> >> + # (Europe/Minsk)
> >> GMT 0 # Greenwich Mean Time
> >> # (Africa/Abidjan)
> >> # (Africa/Bamako)
> >
> >>
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