Re: 2007 DST change not working

Frank,
Of course you could always get brave and recompile the zone files :). I
outlined a procedure on my web site:

http://www.postgresqlforums.com/wiki/

If your interested in braving those waters. I did perform it against
8.1.5and the zone files worked fine with your test case.

Perhaps this is a good excuse to give 8.2 a whirl? :)

On 1/1/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Frank Bax <fbax(at)sympatico(dot)ca> writes:
> > fbax=> show time zone;
> > TimeZone
> > ----------------
> > Canada/Eastern
>
> Oh, there's your problem: as of 8.1.5's version of the zoneinfo files,
> it wasn't clear what Canada was going to do. Looking at our CVS history
> it seems the zoneinfo people only did something about it in mid-2006:
>
> +# From Paul Eggert (2006-06-27):
> +# For now, assume all of DST-observing Canada will fall into line with
> the
> +# new US DST rules,
>
> This is in CVS for 8.1.6 but not released yet. What I'd suggest is
> grabbing the share/timezone/* files out of an 8.2.0 release, which
> does have the update. You might be able to get away with just copying
> your /usr/share/zoneinfo tree into Postgres' share/timezone directory,
> but be prepared to undo that because it could break things entirely:
> there's more than one zoneinfo file format out there.
>
> Also note you need to restart the postmaster after updating zoneinfo,
> I don't think there's any provision for noticing updates automatically.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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