Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 02:26 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Plan B would be to take out contracts on all the banana-republic
>> politicians who think that changing DST laws with a month's notice
>> is a pleasant pastime. I fear we lack the resources for that,
>> unfortunately.
> You're referring to countries like the United States and New Zealand ;-)
Be fair --- the USA did give us a couple years' notice. Though I'm
still prepared to vote against any congresscritter who stands up and
says that was a good idea. (I'm still driving a car whose GPS does not
know about the change, and if any political animal happens to be reading
this: it is not a good idea to tick off your constituents in the week
before November elections.)
> On a more serious note, we *could* make a simple ZIP file available with
> files to drop in the timezone directory for such urgent updates, since
> the majority of users don't need them.
Sure, it's doable if anyone cares that much. But I think we should
spend more energy on scheming how not to be involved.
regards, tom lane
