Re: New tzdata available

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com>, Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)Sun(dot)COM>, Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)CommandPrompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: New tzdata available
Date: 2007-11-08 21:46:28
Message-ID: 473383B4.4040205@hagander.net
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>
> Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> Are Windows users accustomed to having up-to-the-minute timezone
>> information? Maybe there's something I don't know about Microsoft's
>> update practices, but I would have thought that the expectations on that
>> platform would be pretty darn low.
>>
>>
>>
>
> No, they push updates fairly aggressively. Of course, that's when they
> have fixes for the problems ... but I would normally expect them to be
> well on top of timezone changes.

At least for "common places". They certainly pushed out TZ updates for
the US changes and the NZ changes recently through their Windows
Update/Automatic Updates/WSUS service.

//Magnus

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