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authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2011-10-27 23:09:10 -0400
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>2011-10-27 23:09:10 -0400
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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.
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diff --git a/src/timezone/README b/src/timezone/README
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@@ -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