Re: [NOVICE] DST question

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Mon Oct 01 2007 - 14:09:47 EDT

"Wright, George" <George.Wright@infimatic.com> writes:
> I am trying to get Daylight Savings Time working for the EAST Brazilian
> time zone. In Brazil for 2007, the DST change occurs on Oct. 13-14.

You need a newer version of the zic timezone database. Way newer --- it looks to me like the first version of the zic files that knows the above rules is 2007h, which was released today. You'd need to grab ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata2007h.tar.gz, feed it through zic, and put the files into place in the Postgres installation tree.

<rant>
Suggestion: lobby your politicians to set DST transition dates more than just a month in advance. Or even (heaven forbid) have a law that stays the same for years at a time. Don't they realize that people have better things to do than scramble to update their equipment at the last minute?
</rant>

                        regards, tom lane

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