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commit ce6fb7b8e1286796f0b808446a8a84b4102a891d
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Fri Oct 28 03:09:10 2011 +0000
First released in: 9.2.0, 8.2.23, 8.3.17, 8.4.10, 9.0.6, 9.1.2
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.
src/timezone/README | 9 ++++++---
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/timezone/README b/src/timezone/README
index 4db3148e0cd..201b2938814 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
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