Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@CommandPrompt.com> writes:
> > I think the first step is to install the zic binary along the rest of
> > the stuff, so that a user without the source tree can compile the tzdata
> > package. Unless the compiled representation is portable, which I kinda
> > doubt?
>
> Actually, it is. In fact, it's so portable that their recent extension
> to 64-bits (for Y2038) is fully upward compatible with existing programs.
>
> So one solution is to just provide a zipfile of the updated timezone
> file tree and tell people to drop it into their installations.
That's the most convenient, I agree.
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