Re: 2007 DST change not working

Correction, I checked Canada/Eastern on both. US/Eastern is fine on both.

On 1/1/07, Chad Wagner <chad(dot)wagner(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Tom,
> I compared Canada/Eastern to US/Eastern and they are out of date for
> 8.1.5, but 8.2 is OK.
>
> PostgreSQL 8.1.5
> $ /usr/sbin/zdump -v /usr/share/pgsql/timezone/Canada/Eastern |grep 2007
> /usr/share/pgsql/timezone/Canada/Eastern Sun Apr 1 06:59:59 2007 UTC =
> Sun Apr 1 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
> /usr/share/pgsql/timezone/Canada/Eastern Sun Apr 1 07:00:00 2007 UTC =
> Sun Apr 1 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> /usr/share/pgsql/timezone/Canada/Eastern Sun Oct 28 05:59:59 2007 UTC =
> Sun Oct 28 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> /usr/share/pgsql/timezone/Canada/Eastern Sun Oct 28 06:00:00 2007 UTC =
> Sun Oct 28 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
>
> PostgreSQL 8.2.0
> $ /usr/sbin/zdump -v /usr/share/pgsql/timezone/Canada/Eastern |grep 2007
> /usr/share/pgsql/timezone/Canada/Eastern Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC =
> Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
> /usr/share/pgsql/timezone/Canada/Eastern Sun Mar 11 07:00:00 2007 UTC =
> Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> /usr/share/pgsql/timezone/Canada/Eastern Sun Nov 4 05:59:59 2007 UTC =
> Sun Nov 4 01:59:59 2007 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400
> /usr/share/pgsql/timezone/Canada/Eastern Sun Nov 4 06:00:00 2007 UTC =
> Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000
>
>
> On 1/1/07, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> >
> > Frank Bax <fbax(at)sympatico(dot)ca> writes:
> > > My query produces the correct results for 2005 and 2006; but in 2007
> > DST
> > > dates are changing in North America and my query seems to still be
> > using
> > > 2006 rules for 2007 data.
> >
> > You certain this is PG 8.1? Every release of 8.1.x has shipped with
> > timezone data files that included the 2007 rule change. In the 8.0
> > series, 8.0.4 and up should have that update. PG 7.x releases are
> > dependent on the operating system's timezone knowledge.
> >
> > FWIW, my copy of 8.1.5 produces
> >
> > regression=# select * from dst where tzage <> '12 hrs';
> > tz1 | tz2 | tzage
> > ------------------------+------------------------+----------
> > 2005-04-03 00:00:00-05 | 2005-04-03 12:00:00-04 | 11:00:00
> > 2005-10-30 00:00:00-04 | 2005-10-30 12:00:00-05 | 13:00:00
> > 2006-04-02 00:00:00-05 | 2006-04-02 12:00:00-04 | 11:00:00
> > 2006-10-29 00:00:00-04 | 2006-10-29 12:00:00-05 | 13:00:00
> > 2007-03-11 00:00:00-05 | 2007-03-11 12:00:00-04 | 11:00:00
> > 2007-11-04 00:00:00-04 | 2007-11-04 12:00:00-05 | 13:00:00
> > (6 rows)
> >
> > where
> >
> > regression=# show timezone;
> > TimeZone
> > ------------------
> > America/New_York
> > (1 row)
> >
> > (Another possibility I guess is you have the wrong timezone setting?)
> >
> > regards, tom lane
> >
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