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| author | Tom Lane | 2006-07-25 03:51:23 +0000 |
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| committer | Tom Lane | 2006-07-25 03:51:23 +0000 |
| commit | d8b5c95ca8a2ce7cd4062d4a12710ca977bac87c (patch) | |
| tree | a22dd25471942e3a24edcc2319e03319bed0482b /src/timezone/README | |
| parent | 631ea6188366ee1b9818fed88d8fadd495246fd7 (diff) | |
Remove hard-wired lists of timezone abbreviations in favor of providing
configuration files that can be altered by a DBA. The australian_timezones
GUC setting disappears, replaced by a timezone_abbreviations setting (set this
to 'Australia' to get the effect of australian_timezones). The list of zone
names defined by default has undergone a bit of cleanup, too. Documentation
still needs some work --- in particular, should we fix Table B-4, or just get
rid of it? Joachim Wieland, with some editorializing by moi.
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diff --git a/src/timezone/README b/src/timezone/README index 5204ccba854..564f8e0e75f 100644 --- a/src/timezone/README +++ b/src/timezone/README @@ -11,3 +11,9 @@ from Since time zone rules change frequently in some parts of the world, we should endeavor to update the data files before each PostgreSQL release. + +At each update, we should check if time zone offsets have changed. +Just search for the current or previous year and see what has changed. +Sometimes a country changes its time zone offsets, for example Georgia +in 2004. Just grepping in the zic database files for 2004 is enough to +spot such a change. Then the files under tznames/ should be updated. |