Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 02:26 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Plan B would be to take out contracts on all the banana-republic >> politicians who think that changing DST laws with a month's notice >> is a pleasant pastime. I fear we lack the resources for that, >> unfortunately.
> You're referring to countries like the United States and New Zealand ;-) Be fair --- the USA did give us a couple years' notice. Though I'm still prepared to vote against any congresscritter who stands up and says that was a good idea. (I'm still driving a car whose GPS does not know about the change, and if any political animal happens to be reading this: it is not a good idea to tick off your constituents in the week before November elections.) > On a more serious note, we *could* make a simple ZIP file available with > files to drop in the timezone directory for such urgent updates, since > the majority of users don't need them. Sure, it's doable if anyone cares that much. But I think we should spend more energy on scheming how not to be involved. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate