Re: Anyone want to update our Windows timezone map?

Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> We have certainly not been doing that on a regular basis (as best I can
>> tell, no such changes have been made since 2010). Does anybody who uses
>> Windows want to deal with it? Or at least do it once so that our Windows
>> TZ info is less than 5 years out of date?

> By the way, I noticed that Unicode CLDR publishes this data set which
> seems to be the same sort of thing:
> http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/29/supplemental/zone_tzid.html

> Could that be a better source than dumping stuff from arbitrary
> Windows versions?

Well, the point is that we need to recognize the timezone names that
Windows actually uses. A list of strings that's more or less the same
doesn't really cut it ...

regards, tom lane