Time zone database

On 03.03.2011 20:45, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

Today on the ietf-applications list, I saw this:

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg02301.html

If there are particular issues with respect to the time zone database
stuff that you all have struggled with and want highlighted, feel free
to send them to me and I'll try to figure out whether they're relevant
to this Internet Draft and the new plans. I will be at the IETF
meeting in Prague, though I won't plan to attend the session in
question unless someone tells me I ought.

If none of this is relevant to Postgres, sorry for the noise. I just
saw it in passing and remember some of the annoyances that happened in
the past.

Yes, we use David Olson's tz database. According to this proposal, David
Olson is retiring, and they propose that IETF takes over maintainership
of the tz database.

The idea seems to be that the work to keep the database and tz code
current would continue like before, just in the hands of different
people, so I don't think this affects us in any way.

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 09:27:58PM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

Yes, we use David Olson's tz database. According to this proposal, David
Olson is retiring, and they propose that IETF takes over maintainership
of the tz database.

Yeah, I guess I ought to have summarized. That is indeed the plan.

The idea seems to be that the work to keep the database and tz code
current would continue like before, just in the hands of different
people, so I don't think this affects us in any way.

There is the possibility that the IETF will be somehow less quick to
cope with changes. (The IETF is not a speedy way to get anything
done.) I think that's the biggest reservation I've heard expressed.

Anyway, as long as nobody's worried, I can stand mute :)

Thanks for the reply.

A

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Andrew Sullivan
ajs@crankycanuck.ca