Re: tzdata2012d

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Excerpts from David Fetter's message of lun jul 30 17:27:46 -0400 2012:
>>> Can we slide this into the upcoming point release? When would that
>>> be?
>
>> Usually, Tom installs the latest timezone data just before each point
>> release.
>
> It's part of the release checklist.
>
> In practice, people who need the latest TZ data shouldn't be relying
> on our copy anyway. I think pretty much all distros build with

That's a "dangerous" thing to say. All the Windows users out there
have no choice. I'm not sure about Mac, but AFAIK certainly the ones
downloading the binaries will get "our" set of TZ files. That
represents a very non-trival portion of our users.

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