On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 02:56 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > 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.
Not for the latest changes, IIRC. > 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. Sure. But how can we do that for a platform that doesn't have compatible zic files as part of the platform. I know Windows is such, I have no idea if there are others, but that doesn't change the need to have a solution for this case. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
