tzdata 2025b

Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> writes:

tzdata 2025b has been released on 3/22[1]. Do we need to update the
tzdata.zi file on HEAD and backbranches?

Yup, eventually, but I don't normally worry about it until we are
approaching a release date. tzdata changes often come in bunches
around the spring and fall equinoxes, which is when governments
tend to rush out DST changes without thinking about lead times :-(.
So it's entirely possible that 2025b will already be obsolete by May.
(See for example ecbac3e6e and d8fc45bd0, when I thought I'd waited
long enough and was wrong.)

The situation might be different with a tzdata release that affects
our regression test results, but I don't believe this one does.

regards, tom lane

On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

Masahiko Sawada <sawada.mshk@gmail.com> writes:

tzdata 2025b has been released on 3/22[1]. Do we need to update the
tzdata.zi file on HEAD and backbranches?

Yup, eventually, but I don't normally worry about it until we are
approaching a release date. tzdata changes often come in bunches
around the spring and fall equinoxes, which is when governments
tend to rush out DST changes without thinking about lead times :-(.
So it's entirely possible that 2025b will already be obsolete by May.
(See for example ecbac3e6e and d8fc45bd0, when I thought I'd waited
long enough and was wrong.)

The situation might be different with a tzdata release that affects
our regression test results, but I don't believe this one does.

Thank you for the explanation! That makes sense. We'll revisit it
around minor release.

Regards,

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