postgresql/src/timezone
Tom Lane f4898c945f Sync timezone code with tzcode 2010c from the Olson group. This fixes some
corner cases that come up in certain timezones (apparently, only those with
lots and lots of distinct TZ transition rules, as far as I can gather from
a quick scan of their archives).  Per suggestion from Jeevan Chalke.

Back-patch to 8.4.  Possibly we need to push this into earlier releases
as well, but I'm hesitant to update them to the 64-bit tzcode without
more thought and testing.
2010-03-11 18:43:24 +00:00
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data Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2010d: DST law changes in Fiji, 2010-03-09 14:27:28 +00:00
tznames Update the tznames reference files, and add IDT (Israel Daylight Time) 2009-09-06 15:25:23 +00:00
ialloc.c Update timezone code to track the upstream changes since 2003. In particular 2008-02-16 21:16:04 +00:00
localtime.c Sync timezone code with tzcode 2010c from the Olson group. This fixes some 2010-03-11 18:43:24 +00:00
Makefile Update of install-sh, mkinstalldirs, and associated configury 2009-08-26 22:24:44 +00:00
pgtz.c pgindent run for 9.0 2010-02-26 02:01:40 +00:00
pgtz.h Update copyright for the year 2010. 2010-01-02 16:58:17 +00:00
private.h 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list 2009-06-11 14:49:15 +00:00
README Sync timezone code with tzcode 2010c from the Olson group. This fixes some 2010-03-11 18:43:24 +00:00
scheck.c Update timezone code to track the upstream changes since 2003. In particular 2008-02-16 21:16:04 +00:00
strftime.c Sync timezone code with tzcode 2010c from the Olson group. This fixes some 2010-03-11 18:43:24 +00:00
tzfile.h 8.4 pgindent run, with new combined Linux/FreeBSD/MinGW typedef list 2009-06-11 14:49:15 +00:00
zic.c Sync timezone code with tzcode 2010c from the Olson group. This fixes some 2010-03-11 18:43:24 +00:00

$PostgreSQL: pgsql/src/timezone/README,v 1.8 2010/03/11 18:43:24 tgl Exp $

Timezone
========

This is a PostgreSQL adapted version of the timezone library from:

	ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/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
diffs in the upstream version should usually be propagated to our version.

The data files under data/ are an exact copy of the latest data set from:

	ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/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
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.