Hi, Every year we have a ton of questions about updating the time zone data in Brazil (our politics decided to do it at 90min at the second half). Problem is that there is not sufficient time to release a new minor version with an updated time zone data. It is not a problem for *nix because zic binary is available (even without --with-system-tzdata option) but on Windows, you are hosed (you have no option but build source code). Should we have pg_zic?
Sometimes we need to update time zone data but can't upgrade. Why? * you're stacked in an unsupported version; * your code is relying on a strange behavior that was changed in a minor version; * a new minor version was released hours ago but politics decided to change timezone in a hurry (before a new minor version). It happened in my state (Tocantins) last week -- up to 48 hours before starting DST, we don't know if we're in or out DST. That's because the governor decided (without consulting the population) to be in but when people said 'no', he stepped back and requested the president to be out; that was too late. [1] http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-October/018347.html -- Euler Taveira de Oliveira - Timbira http://www.timbira.com.br/ PostgreSQL: Consultoria, Desenvolvimento, Suporte 24x7 e Treinamento -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
