New Zealand - TZ change

Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> writes:

I would like to inform, that New Zealand changed DST rules and new
timezone files are available. See
http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended

Patch for head attached.

We do not "patch" those files; the update technique is "download, untar,
commit", and there's really no point in doing it except when a release
is imminent. See src/timezone/README and src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES.

regards, tom lane

Tom Lane wrote:

Zdenek Kotala <Zdenek.Kotala@Sun.COM> writes:

I would like to inform, that New Zealand changed DST rules and new
timezone files are available. See
http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended

Patch for head attached.

We do not "patch" those files; the update technique is "download, untar,
commit", and there's really no point in doing it except when a release
is imminent. See src/timezone/README and src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES.

Thanks for explanation. However there is still the question when we will release
new 8.0-8.2 versions. The changes will happen after two months and there is not
much space for packagers to create and release packages.

Zdenek

Tom,

We do not "patch" those files; the update technique is "download, untar,
commit", and there's really no point in doing it except when a release
is imminent. See src/timezone/README and src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES.

Do we have anything else pending? We may need to do a release just for this
timezone update if we don't have anything else within a few weeks. We have a
fair number of users in NZ.

--
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:

Do we have anything else pending? We may need to do a release just
for this timezone update if we don't have anything else within a few
weeks. We have a fair number of users in NZ.

I'd kinda like to get 8.3beta1 out the door before we expend time on
another set of back-branch releases. But maybe in a month or so we
could do this. We have accumulated some bug fixes since the last round,
and I imagine there will be a few more by then.

regards, tom lane

Zdenek Kotala wrote:

I would like to inform, that New Zealand changed DST rules and new
timezone files are available. See
http://www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Services-Daylight-Saving-Daylight-saving-to-be-extended

Patch for head attached. I kept zic.c untouched, but I think it would be
nice to update it as well.

Are there any updated release scheduled 8.0-8.2?

FYI, we will have a release containing the New Zealand time zone changes
early next week.

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