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Update docs to point to the timezone library's new home at IANA. 

The recent unpleasantness with copyrights has accelerated a move that
was already in planning.
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Tom Lane 2011-10-27 23:09:05 -04:00
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Timezone
========
This is a PostgreSQL adapted version of the timezone library from:
This is a PostgreSQL adapted version of the timezone library from
http://www.iana.org/time-zones
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode*.tar.gz
The source code can be found at:
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode*.tar.gz
The code is currently synced with release 2010c. There are many cosmetic
(and not so cosmetic) differences from the original tzcode library, but
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The data files under data/ are an exact copy of the latest data set from:
ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata*.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata*.tar.gz
Since time zone rules change frequently in some parts of the world,
we should endeavor to update the data files before each PostgreSQL