Bruce,
> The Postgres community does not maintain the timezone database; we ship
> copies of the IANA timezone database; you will have to request the
> changes from them:
>
> http://www.iana.org/time-zones
Please take a second look at the diffs, they do *NOT* change the files
in the timezone database, they change the Default set ot timezones that
PostgreSQL uses.
These files are maintained by PostgreSQL, there is even a README with an
explicit mention that changes should be reported to pgsql-hackers....
>
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>
> On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 11:18:43AM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
>> The attached patch would add the FET timezone abbreviation to the
>> Default list _and_ the list of european abbreviations.
>>
>> - mb
>
>> diff --git a/src/timezone/tznames/Default b/src/timezone/tznames/Default
>> index 1369f47..7223ce5 100644
>> --- a/src/timezone/tznames/Default
>> +++ b/src/timezone/tznames/Default
>> @@ -615,6 +615,8 @@ EETDST 10800 D # East-Egypt Summertime
>> # (Europe/Uzhgorod)
>> # (Europe/Vilnius)
>> # (Europe/Zaporozhye)
>> +FET 10800 # Further-eastern European Time
>> + # (Europe/Minsk)
>> MEST 7200 D # Middle Europe Summer Time (not in zic)
>> MET 3600 # Middle Europe Time (not in zic)
>> METDST 7200 D # Middle Europe Summer Time (not in zic)
>> diff --git a/src/timezone/tznames/Europe.txt b/src/timezone/tznames/Europe.txt
>> index 88abecca..6c35ab1 100644
>> --- a/src/timezone/tznames/Europe.txt
>> +++ b/src/timezone/tznames/Europe.txt
>> @@ -154,6 +154,8 @@ EETDST 10800 D # East-Egypt Summertime
>> # (Europe/Uzhgorod)
>> # (Europe/Vilnius)
>> # (Europe/Zaporozhye)
>> +FET 10800 # Further-eastern European Time
>> + # (Europe/Minsk)
>> GMT 0 # Greenwich Mean Time
>> # (Africa/Abidjan)
>> # (Africa/Bamako)
>
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