"Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders@xxxxxxx> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> No, you're behind the times: 8.2.4 and 8.1.9 are too old to know about >> this year's changes in southeast Australia DST laws. Which I imagine >> is what's biting you. > Doesn't Pg use tzdata (at least that's what it's called on for > Redhat-ian distributions) for it's timezone information? Yes. tzdata didn't know about those changes back then, either ;-) If you meant to say "why aren't we using the system's copy of tzdata", it's because we need to run on systems that don't have one. If you are on a platform that uses the standard "Olsen" tz database and you have confidence that it will get updated regularly, you can configure PG to use that copy instead of its built-in copy ... but this isn't the default. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
