Re: BUG #6638: Casablanca timezone is wrong

Thanks guys for your prompt support!
I'm going to update Olson library on the concerned computer using the latest files.

Thanks again.

David Chuet
Odotech inc.

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From: Heikki Linnakangas [mailto:heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com]
Sent: May-14-12 11:51 AM
To: David Chuet
Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #6638: Casablanca timezone is wrong

On 14.05.2012 18:21, dchuet(at)odotech(dot)com wrote:
> We get for Africa/Casablanca, timezone equal to WET with no DST.
>
> This is not true from 2010.
> See Wikipedia, for Morocco:
>
> Time zone WET (UTC+0)
> Summer (DST) WEST (UTC+1)(May 2nd to August 7th)

PostgreSQL uses the timezone data from the so-called Olson library. See http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm. Looking at the upstream library, this is fixed in the most recent version (tzdata2012c), We will pick up that change in the next PostgreSQL minor release, ie. 9.0.8 for the 9.0 series.

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