Re: New tzdata available - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: New tzdata available
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Msg-id 473383B4.4040205@hagander.net
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In response to Re: New tzdata available  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> 
> Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> Are Windows users accustomed to having up-to-the-minute timezone
>> information?  Maybe there's something I don't know about Microsoft's
>> update practices, but I would have thought that the expectations on that
>> platform would be pretty darn low.
>>
>>
>>   
> 
> No, they push updates fairly aggressively. Of course, that's when they
> have fixes for the problems ... but I would normally expect them to be
> well on top of timezone changes.

At least for "common places". They certainly pushed out TZ updates for
the US changes and the NZ changes recently through their Windows
Update/Automatic Updates/WSUS service.

//Magnus


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