tzdata 2025a and timestamptz.out

Started by Christoph Berg12 months ago2 messages
#1Christoph Berg
cb@df7cb.de

It happened again:

News for the tz database

Release 2025a - 2025-01-15 10:47:24 -0800

Briefly:
...
Improve pre-1991 data for the Philippines.

 SELECT make_timestamptz(1846, 12, 10, 0, 0, 0, 'Asia/Manila') AT TIME ZONE 'UTC';
          timezone
 --------------------------
- Wed Dec 09 15:56:00 1846
+ Wed Dec 09 15:56:08 1846

Christoph

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Christoph Berg (#1)
Re: tzdata 2025a and timestamptz.out

Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de> writes:

SELECT make_timestamptz(1846, 12, 10, 0, 0, 0, 'Asia/Manila') AT TIME ZONE 'UTC';
timezone
--------------------------
- Wed Dec 09 15:56:00 1846
+ Wed Dec 09 15:56:08 1846

Grumble. Let's switch to using Asia/Singapore in this test case.
It has a roughly similar UTC offset, and that offset hasn't
changed in tzdb since 2003. (Gotta love "git blame".)

regards, tom lane