From: Tom Lane Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 03:09:05 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Update docs to point to the timezone library's new home at IANA. X-Git-Tag: REL9_2_BETA1~923 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ece12659cf1695d318445b837b36edc15b6f25d6;p=postgresql Update docs to point to the timezone library's new home at IANA. The recent unpleasantness with copyrights has accelerated a move that was already in planning. --- diff --git a/src/timezone/README b/src/timezone/README index 4db3148e0c..201b293881 100644 --- a/src/timezone/README +++ b/src/timezone/README @@ -3,9 +3,12 @@ src/timezone/README Timezone ======== -This is a PostgreSQL adapted version of the timezone library from: +This is a PostgreSQL adapted version of the timezone library from +http://www.iana.org/time-zones - ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode*.tar.gz +The source code can be found at: + + ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzcode*.tar.gz The code is currently synced with release 2010c. There are many cosmetic (and not so cosmetic) differences from the original tzcode library, but @@ -13,7 +16,7 @@ diffs in the upstream version should usually be propagated to our version. The data files under data/ are an exact copy of the latest data set from: - ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzdata*.tar.gz + ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/tzdata*.tar.gz Since time zone rules change frequently in some parts of the world, we should endeavor to update the data files before each PostgreSQL