Re: UCT (Re: pgsql: Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.)

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>

From: Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andrew Gierth <andrew@tao11.riddles.org.uk>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-06-19T23:14:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 10:48 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> As of now, six of the seven UCT-reporting members have switched to UTC;
> the lone holdout is elver which hasn't run in ten days.  (Perhaps it
> zneeds unwedged.)  There are no other changes, so it seems like Andrew's
> patch is doing what it says on the tin.

Oops.  Apparentlly REL_10 of the build farm scripts lost the ability
to find "buildroot" in the current working directory automatically.  I
have updated eelpout and elver's .conf file to have an explicit path,
and they are now busily building stuff.

-- 
Thomas Munro
https://enterprisedb.com



Commits

  1. Tweak our special-case logic for the IANA "Factory" timezone.

  2. Avoid choosing "localtime" or "posixrules" as TimeZone during initdb.

  3. Prefer timezone name "UTC" over alternative spellings.

  4. Attempt to identify system timezone by reading /etc/localtime symlink.

  5. Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.