Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes: > A bigger question is whether we want to modify the timezone datbase in > minor releases. Such a change could cause application behavior changes.
The reason the zic database changes so often is that in certain parts of the world they throw dice before deciding what this year's DST transition dates will be (or so it seems anyway ;-)). We do need to make an effort to keep it up-to-date, or it will be wrong for those folks. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])