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2021-01-24Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2021a.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Russia (Volgograd zone) and South Sudan. Historical corrections for Australia, Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, Ghana, Israel, Kenya, Nigeria, Palestine, Seychelles, and Vanuatu. Notably, the Australia/Currie zone has been corrected to the point where it is identical to Australia/Hobart.
2020-10-22Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2020d.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Palestine, with a whopping 120 hours' notice. Also some historical corrections for Palestine.
2020-10-22Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2020d.Tom Lane
There's no functional change at all here, but I'm curious to see whether this change successfully shuts up Coverity's warning about a useless strcmp(), which appeared with the previous update. Discussion: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2020-October/029370.html
2020-10-16Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2020c.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Morocco, Canadian Yukon, Fiji, Macquarie Island, Casey Station (Antarctica). Historical corrections for France, Hungary, Monaco.
2020-10-16Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2020c.Tom Lane
This changes zic's default output format from "-b fat" to "-b slim". We were already using "slim" in v13/HEAD, so those branches drop the explicit -b switch in the Makefiles. Instead, add an explicit "-b fat" in v12 and before, so that we don't change the output file format in those branches. (This is perhaps excessively conservative, but we decided not to do so in a12079109, and I'll stick with that.) Other non-cosmetic changes are to drop support for zic's long-obsolete "-y" switch, and to ensure that strftime() does not change errno unless it fails. As usual with tzcode changes, back-patch to all supported branches.
2020-07-17Ensure that distributed timezone abbreviation files are plain ASCII.Tom Lane
We had two occurrences of "Mitteleuropäische Zeit" in Europe.txt, though the corresponding entries in Default were spelled "Mitteleuropaeische Zeit". Standardize on the latter spelling to avoid questions of which encoding to use. While here, correct a couple of other trivial inconsistencies between the Default file and the supposedly-matching entries in the *.txt files, as exposed by some checking with comm(1). Also, add BDST to the Europe.txt file; it previously was only listed in Default. None of this has any direct functional effect. Per complaint from Christoph Berg. As usual for timezone data patches, apply to all branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20200716100743.GE3534683@msg.df7cb.de
2020-06-24Fix compiler warning induced by commit d8b15eeb8.Tom Lane
I forgot that INT64_FORMAT can't be used with sscanf on Windows. Use the same trick of sscanf'ing into a temp variable as we do in some other places in zic.c. The upstream IANA code avoids the portability problem by relying on <inttypes.h>'s SCNdFAST64 macro. Once we're requiring C99 in all branches, we should do likewise and drop this set of diffs from upstream. For now, though, a hack seems fine, since we do not actually care about leapseconds anyway. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/4e5d1a5b-143e-e70e-a99d-a3b01c1ae7c3@2ndquadrant.com
2020-06-17Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2020a.Tom Lane
This absorbs a leap-second-related bug fix in localtime.c, and teaches zic to handle an expiration marker in the leapseconds file. Neither are of any interest to us (for the foreseeable future anyway), but we need to stay more or less in sync with upstream. Also adjust some over-eager changes in the README from commit 957338418. I have no intention of making changes that require C99 in this code, until such time as all the live back branches require C99. Otherwise back-patching will get too exciting. For the same reason, absorb assorted whitespace and other cosmetic changes from HEAD into the back branches; mostly this reflects use of improved versions of pgindent. All in all then, quite a boring update. But I figured I'd get it done while I was looking at this code.
2020-04-24Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2020a.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Morocco and the Canadian Yukon. Historical corrections for Shanghai. The America/Godthab zone is renamed to America/Nuuk to reflect current English usage; however, the old name remains available as a compatibility link.
2019-09-20Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019c.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Fiji and Norfolk Island. Historical corrections for Alberta, Austria, Belgium, British Columbia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indiana (Perry County), Kaliningrad, Kentucky, Michigan, Norfolk Island, South Korea, and Turkey.
2019-07-26Tweak our special-case logic for the IANA "Factory" timezone.Tom Lane
pg_timezone_names() tries to avoid showing the "Factory" zone in the view, mainly because that has traditionally had a very long "abbreviation" such as "Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page", so that showing it messes up psql's formatting of the whole view. Since tzdb version 2016g, IANA instead uses the abbreviation "-00", which is sane enough that there's no reason to discriminate against it. On the other hand, it emerges that FreeBSD and possibly other packagers are so wedded to backwards compatibility that they hack the IANA data to keep the old spelling --- and not just that old spelling, but even older spellings that IANA used back in the stone age. This caused the filter logic to fail to suppress "Factory" at all on such platforms, though the formatting problem is definitely real in that case. To solve both problems, get rid of the hard-wired assumption about exactly what Factory's abbreviation is, and instead reject abbreviations exceeding 31 characters. This will allow Factory to appear in the view if and only if it's using the modern abbreviation. In passing, simplify the code we add to zic.c to support "zic -P" to remove its now-obsolete hacks to not print the Factory zone's abbreviation. Unlike pg_timezone_names(), there's no reason for that code to support old/nonstandard timezone data. Since we generally prefer to keep timezone-related behavior the same in all branches, and since this is arguably a bug fix, back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/3961.1564086915@sss.pgh.pa.us
2019-07-19Silence compiler warning, hopefully.Tom Lane
Absorb commit e5e04c962a5d12eebbf867ca25905b3ccc34cbe0 from upstream IANA code, in hopes of silencing warnings from MSVC about negating a bool value. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20190719035347.GJ1859@paquier.xyz
2019-07-17Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019b.Tom Lane
Brazil no longer observes DST. Historical corrections for Palestine, Hong Kong, and Italy.
2019-07-17Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2019b.Tom Lane
A large fraction of this diff is just due to upstream's somewhat random decision to rename a bunch of internal variables and struct fields. However, there is an interesting new feature in zic: it's grown a "-b slim" option that emits zone files without 32-bit data and other backwards-compatibility hacks. We should consider whether we wish to enable that.
2019-04-26Portability fix for zic.c.Tom Lane
Missed an inttypes.h dependency in previous patch. Per buildfarm.
2019-04-26Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2019a.Tom Lane
This corrects a small bug in zic that caused it to output an incorrect year-2440 transition in the Africa/Casablanca zone. More interestingly, zic has grown a "-r" option that limits the range of zone transitions that it will put into the output files. That might be useful to people who don't like the weird GMT offsets that tzdb likes to use for very old dates. It appears that for dates before the cutoff time specified with -r, zic will use the zone's standard-time offset as of the cutoff time. So for example one might do make install ZIC_OPTIONS='-r @-1893456000' to cause all dates before 1910-01-01 to be treated as though 1910 standard time prevailed indefinitely far back. (Don't blame me for the unfriendly way of specifying the cutoff time --- it's seconds since or before the Unix epoch. You can use extract(epoch ...) to calculate it.) As usual, back-patch to all supported branches.
2019-04-26Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2019a.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Palestine and Metlakatla. Historical corrections for Israel. Etc/UCT is now a backward-compatibility link to Etc/UTC, instead of being a separate zone that generates the abbreviation "UCT", which nowadays is typically a typo. Postgres will still accept "UCT" as an input zone name, but it won't output it.
2019-02-05Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2018i.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Kazakhstan, Metlakatla, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Kazakhstan's Qyzylorda zone is split in two, creating a new zone Asia/Qostanay, as some areas did not change UTC offset. Historical corrections for Hong Kong and numerous Pacific islands.
2018-10-31Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2018g.Tom Lane
This patch absorbs an upstream fix to "zic" for a recently-introduced bug that made it output data that some 32-bit clients couldn't read. Given the current source data, the bug only manifests in zones with leap seconds, which we don't generate, so that there's no actual change in our installed timezone data files from this. Still, in case somebody uses our copy of "zic" to do something else, it seems best to apply the fix promptly. Also, update the README's notes about converting upstream code to our conventions.
2018-10-31Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2018g.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Morocco (with, effectively, zero notice). Historical corrections for Hawaii.
2018-10-19Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2018f.Tom Lane
About half of this is purely cosmetic changes to reduce the diff between our code and theirs, like inserting "const" markers where they have them. The other half is tracking actual code changes in zic.c and localtime.c. I don't think any of these represent near-term compatibility hazards, but it seems best to stay up to date. I also fixed longstanding bugs in our code for producing the known_abbrevs.txt list, which by chance hadn't been exposed before, but which resulted in some garbage output after applying the upstream changes in zic.c. Notably, because upstream removed their old phony transitions at the Big Bang, it's now necessary to cope with TZif files containing no DST transition times at all.
2018-10-19Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2018f.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Chile, Fiji, and Russia (Volgograd). Historical corrections for China, Japan, Macau, and North Korea. Note: like the previous tzdata update, this involves a depressingly large amount of semantically-meaningless churn in tzdata.zi. That is a consequence of upstream's data compression method assigning unstable abbreviations to DST rulesets. I complained about that to them last time, and this version now uses an assignment method that pays some heed to not changing abbreviations unnecessarily. So hopefully, that'll be better going forward.
2018-10-17Improve tzparse's handling of TZDEFRULES ("posixrules") zone data.Tom Lane
In the IANA timezone code, tzparse() always tries to load the zone file named by TZDEFRULES ("posixrules"). Previously, we'd hacked that logic to skip the load in the "lastditch" code path, which we use only to initialize the default "GMT" zone during GUC initialization. That's critical for a couple of reasons: since we do not support leap seconds, we *must not* allow "GMT" to have leap seconds, and since this case runs before the GUC subsystem is fully alive, we'd really rather not take the risk of pg_open_tzfile throwing any errors. However, that still left the code reading TZDEFRULES on every other call, something we'd noticed to the extent of having added code to cache the result so it was only done once per process not a lot of times. Andres Freund complained about the static data space used up for the cache; but as long as the logic was like this, there was no point in trying to get rid of that space. We can improve matters by looking a bit more closely at what the IANA code actually needs the TZDEFRULES data for. One thing it does is that if "posixrules" is a leap-second-aware zone, the leap-second behavior will be absorbed into every POSIX-style zone specification. However, that's a behavior we'd really prefer to do without, since for our purposes the end effect is to render every POSIX-style zone name unsupported. Otherwise, the TZDEFRULES data is used only if the POSIX zone name specifies DST but doesn't include a transition date rule (e.g., "EST5EDT" rather than "EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0"). That is a minority case for our purposes --- in particular, it never happens when tzload() invokes tzparse() to interpret a transition date rule string found in a tzdata zone file. Hence, if we legislate that we're going to ignore leap-second data from "posixrules", we can postpone the TZDEFRULES load into the path where we actually need to substitute for a missing date rule string. That means it will never happen at all in common scenarios, making it reasonable to dynamically allocate the cache space when it does happen. Even when the data is already loaded, this saves some cycles in the common code path since we avoid a memcpy of 23KB or so. And, IMO at least, this is a less ugly hack on the IANA logic than what we had before, since it's not messing with the lastditch-vs-regular code paths. Back-patch to all supported branches, not so much because this is a critical change as that I want to keep all our copies of the IANA timezone code in sync. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181015200754.7y7zfuzsoux2c4ya@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-10-16Avoid statically allocating gmtsub()'s timezone workspace.Tom Lane
localtime.c's "struct state" is a rather large object, ~23KB. We were statically allocating one for gmtsub() to use to represent the GMT timezone, even though that function is not at all heavily used and is never reached in most backends. Let's malloc it on-demand, instead. This does pose the question of how to handle a malloc failure, but there's already a well-defined error report convention here, ie set errno and return NULL. We have but one caller of pg_gmtime in HEAD, and two in back branches, neither of which were troubling to check for error. Make them do so. The possible errors are sufficiently unlikely (out-of-range timestamp, and now malloc failure) that I think elog() is adequate. Back-patch to all supported branches to keep our copies of the IANA timezone code in sync. This particular change is in a stanza that already differs from upstream, so it's a wash for maintenance purposes --- but only as long as we keep the branches the same. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20181015200754.7y7zfuzsoux2c4ya@alap3.anarazel.de
2018-05-09Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2018e.Tom Lane
DST law changes in North Korea. Redefinition of "daylight savings" in Ireland, as well as for some past years in Namibia and Czechoslovakia. Additional historical corrections for Czechoslovakia. With this change, the IANA database models Irish timekeeping as following "standard time" in summer, and "daylight savings" in winter, so that the daylight savings offset is one hour behind standard time not one hour ahead. This does not change their UTC offset (+1:00 in summer, 0:00 in winter) nor their timezone abbreviations (IST in summer, GMT in winter), though now "IST" is more correctly read as "Irish Standard Time" not "Irish Summer Time". However, the "is_dst" column in the pg_timezone_names view will now be true in winter and false in summer for the Europe/Dublin zone. Similar changes were made for Namibia between 1994 and 2017, and for Czechoslovakia between 1946 and 1947. So far as I can find, no Postgres internal logic cares about which way tm_isdst is reported; in particular, since commit b2cbced9e we do not rely on it to decide how to interpret ambiguous timestamps during DST transitions. So I don't think this change will affect any Postgres behavior other than the timezone-view outputs. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30996.1525445902@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-05-04Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2018e.Tom Lane
The non-cosmetic changes involve teaching the "zic" tzdata compiler about negative DST. While I'm not currently intending that we start using negative-DST data right away, it seems possible that somebody would try to use our copy of zic with bleeding-edge IANA data. So we'd better be out in front of this change code-wise, even though it doesn't matter for the data file we're shipping. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/30996.1525445902@sss.pgh.pa.us
2018-04-29Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2018d.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Palestine and Antarctica (Casey Station). Historical corrections for Portugal and its colonies, as well as Enderbury, Jamaica, Turks & Caicos Islands, and Uruguay.
2018-01-27Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2018c.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Brazil, Sao Tome and Principe. Historical corrections for Bolivia, Japan, and South Sudan. The "US/Pacific-New" zone has been removed (it was only a link to America/Los_Angeles anyway).
2017-11-25Replace raw timezone source data with IANA's new compact format.Tom Lane
Traditionally IANA has distributed their timezone data in pure source form, replete with extensive historical comments. As of release 2017c, they've added a compact single-file format that omits comments and abbreviates command keywords. This form is way shorter than the pure source, even before considering its allegedly better compressibility. Hence, let's distribute the data in that form rather than pure source. I'm pushing this now, rather than at the next timezone database update, so that it's easy to confirm that this data file produces compiled zic output that's identical to what we were getting before. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1915.1511210334@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-10-23Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2017c.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Fiji, Namibia, Northern Cyprus, Sudan, Tonga, and Turks & Caicos Islands. Historical corrections for Alaska, Apia, Burma, Calcutta, Detroit, Ireland, Namibia, and Pago Pago.
2017-10-23Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2017c.Tom Lane
This is a trivial update containing only cosmetic changes. The point is just to get back to being synced with an official release of tzcode, rather than some ad-hoc point in their commit history, which is where commit 47f849a3c left it.
2017-09-22Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA tzcode master.Tom Lane
This patch absorbs a few unreleased fixes in the IANA code. It corresponds to commit 2d8b944c1cec0808ac4f7a9ee1a463c28f9cd00a in https://github.com/eggert/tz. Non-cosmetic changes include: TZDEFRULESTRING is updated to match current US DST practice, rather than what it was over ten years ago. This only matters for interpretation of POSIX-style zone names (e.g., "EST5EDT"), and only if the timezone database doesn't include either an exact match for the zone name or a "posixrules" entry. The latter should not be true in any current Postgres installation, but this could possibly matter when using --with-system-tzdata. Get rid of a nonportable use of "++var" on a bool var. This is part of a larger fix that eliminates some vestigial support for consecutive leap seconds, and adds checks to the "zic" compiler that the data files do not specify that. Remove a couple of ancient compatibility hacks. The IANA crew think these are obsolete, and I tend to agree. But perhaps our buildfarm will think different. Back-patch to all supported branches, in line with our policy that all branches should be using current IANA code. Before v10, this includes application of current pgindent rules, to avoid whitespace problems in future back-patches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/E1dsWhf-0000pT-F9@gemulon.postgresql.org
2017-09-01Ensure SIZE_MAX can be used throughout our code.Tom Lane
Pre-C99 platforms may lack <stdint.h> and thereby SIZE_MAX. We have a couple of places using the hack "(size_t) -1" as a fallback, but it wasn't universally available; which means the code added in commit 2e70d6b5e fails to compile everywhere. Move that hack to c.h so that we can rely on having SIZE_MAX everywhere. Per discussion, it'd be a good idea to make the macro's value safe for use in #if-tests, but that will take a bit more work. This is just a quick expedient to get the buildfarm green again. Back-patch to all supported branches, like the previous commit. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15883.1504278595@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-16Fix new warnings from GCC 7Peter Eisentraut
This addresses the new warning types -Wformat-truncation -Wformat-overflow that are part of -Wall, via -Wformat, in GCC 7.
2017-05-07Guard against null t->tm_zone in strftime.c.Tom Lane
The upstream IANA code does not guard against null TM_ZONE pointers in this function, but in our code there is such a check in the other pre-existing use of t->tm_zone. We do have some places that set pg_tm.tm_zone to NULL. I'm not entirely sure it's possible to reach strftime with such a value, but I'm not sure it isn't either, so be safe. Per Coverity complaint.
2017-05-07Restore fullname[] contents before falling through in pg_open_tzfile().Tom Lane
Fix oversight in commit af2c5aa88: if the shortcut open() doesn't work, we need to reset fullname[] to be just the name of the toplevel tzdata directory before we fall through into the pre-existing code. This failed to be exposed in my (tgl's) testing because the fall-through path is actually never taken under normal circumstances. David Rowley, per report from Amit Kapila Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAA4eK1LC7CaNhRAQ__C3ht1JVrPzaAXXhEJRnR5L6bfYHiLmWw@mail.gmail.com
2017-05-02Improve performance of timezone loading, especially pg_timezone_names view.Tom Lane
tzparse() would attempt to load the "posixrules" timezone database file on each call. That might seem like it would only be an issue when selecting a POSIX-style zone name rather than a zone defined in the timezone database, but it turns out that each zone definition file contains a POSIX-style zone string and tzload() will call tzparse() to parse that. Thus, when scanning the whole timezone file tree as we do in the pg_timezone_names view, "posixrules" was read repetitively for each zone definition file. Fix that by caching the file on first use within any given process. (We cache other zone definitions for the life of the process, so there seems little reason not to cache this one as well.) This probably won't help much in processes that never run pg_timezone_names, but even one additional SET of the timezone GUC would come out ahead. An even worse problem for pg_timezone_names is that pg_open_tzfile() has an inefficient way of identifying the canonical case of a zone name: it basically re-descends the directory tree to the zone file. That's not awful for an individual "SET timezone" operation, but it's pretty horrid when we're inspecting every zone in the database. And it's pointless too because we already know the canonical spelling, having just read it from the filesystem. Fix by teaching pg_open_tzfile() to avoid the directory search if it's not asked for the canonical name, and backfilling the proper result in pg_tzenumerate_next(). In combination these changes seem to make the pg_timezone_names view about 3x faster to read, for me. Since a scan of pg_timezone_names has up to now been one of the slowest queries in the regression tests, this should help some little bit for buildfarm cycle times. Back-patch to all supported branches, not so much because it's likely that users will care much about the view's performance as because tracking changes in the upstream IANA timezone code is really painful if we don't keep all the branches in sync. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/27962.1493671706@sss.pgh.pa.us
2017-05-01Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2017b.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Chile, Haiti, and Mongolia. Historical corrections for Ecuador, Kazakhstan, Liberia, and Spain. The IANA crew continue their campaign to replace invented time zone abbrevations with numeric GMT offsets. This update changes numerous zones in South America, the Pacific and Indian oceans, and some Asian and Middle Eastern zones. I kept these abbreviations in the tznames/ data files, however, so that we will still accept them for input. (We may want to start trimming those files someday, but I think we should wait for the upstream dust to settle before deciding what to do.) In passing, add MESZ (Mitteleuropaeische Sommerzeit) to the tznames lists; since we accept MEZ (Mitteleuropaeische Zeit) it seems rather strange not to take the other one. And fix some incorrect, or at least obsolete, comments that certain abbreviations are not traceable to the IANA data.
2017-04-30Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2017b.Tom Lane
zic no longer mishandles some transitions in January 2038 when it attempts to work around Qt bug 53071. This fixes a bug affecting Pacific/Tongatapu that was introduced in zic 2016e. localtime.c now contains a workaround, useful when loading a file generated by a buggy zic. There are assorted cosmetic changes as well, notably relocation of a bunch of #defines.
2017-01-30Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016j.Tom Lane
DST law changes in northern Cyprus (new zone Asia/Famagusta), Russia (new zone Europe/Saratov), Tonga, Antarctica/Casey. Historical corrections for Asia/Aqtau, Asia/Atyrau, Asia/Gaza, Asia/Hebron, Italy, Malta. Replace invented zone abbreviation "TOT" for Tonga with numeric UTC offset; but as in the past, we'll keep accepting "TOT" for input.
2016-12-15Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2016j.Tom Lane
This is a trivial update (consisting in fact only in the addition of a comment). The point is just to get back to being synced with an official release of tzcode, rather than some ad-hoc point in their commit history, which is where commit 1f87181e1 left it.
2016-11-06More zic cleanup.Tom Lane
The workaround the IANA guys chose to get rid of the clang warning we'd silenced in commit 23ed2ba81 turns out not to satisfy Coverity. Go back to the previous solution, ie, remove the useless comparison to SIZE_MAX. (In principle, there could be machines out there where it's not useless because ptrdiff_t is wider than size_t. But the whole thing is pretty academic anyway, as we could never approach this limit for any sane estimate of the amount of data that zic will ever be asked to work with.) Also, s/lineno/lineno_t/g, because if we accept their decision to start using "lineno" as a typedef, it is going to have very unpleasant consequences in our next pgindent run. Noted that while fooling with pltcl yesterday.
2016-11-04Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA tzcode master.Tom Lane
This patch absorbs some unreleased fixes for symlink manipulation bugs introduced in tzcode 2016g. Ordinarily I'd wait around for a released version, but in this case it seems like we could do with extra testing, in particular checking whether it works in EDB's VMware build environment. This corresponds to commit aec59156abbf8472ba201b6c7ca2592f9c10e077 in https://github.com/eggert/tz. Per a report from Sandeep Thakkar, building in an environment where hard links are not supported in the timezone data installation directory failed, because upstream code refactoring had broken the case of symlinking from an existing symlink. Further experimentation also showed that the symlinks were sometimes made incorrectly, with too many or too few "../"'s in the symlink contents. Back-patch of commit 1f87181e12beb067d21b79493393edcff14c190b. Report: <CANFyU94_p6mqRQc2i26PFp5QAOQGB++AjGX=FO8LDpXw0GSTjw@mail.gmail.com> Discussion: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-November/024431.html
2016-10-26Fix not-HAVE_SYMLINK code in zic.c.Tom Lane
I broke this in commit f3094920a. Apparently it's dead code anyway, at least as far as our buildfarm is concerned (and the upstream IANA code doesn't worry at all about symlink() not being present). But as long as the rest of our code is willing to guard against not having symlink(), this should too. Noted while investigating a tangentially-related complaint from Sandeep Thakkar. Back-patch to keep branches in sync.
2016-10-20Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2016h.Tom Lane
This absorbs a fix for a symlink-manipulation bug in zic that was introduced in 2016g. It probably isn't interesting for our use-case, but I'm not quite sure, so let's update while we're at it.
2016-10-20Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016h.Tom Lane
(Didn't I just do this? Oh well.) DST law changes in Palestine. Historical corrections for Turkey. Switch to numeric abbreviations for Asia/Colombo.
2016-10-19Another portability fix for tzcode2016g update.Tom Lane
clang points out that SIZE_MAX wouldn't fit into an int, which means this comparison is pretty useless. Per report from Thomas Munro.
2016-10-19Windows portability fix.Tom Lane
Per buildfarm.
2016-10-19Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2016g.Tom Lane
This is mostly to absorb some corner-case fixes in zic for year-2037 timestamps. The other changes that have been made are unlikely to affect our usage, but nonetheless we may as well take 'em.
2016-10-19Update time zone data files to tzdata release 2016g.Tom Lane
DST law changes in Turkey. Historical corrections for America/Los_Angeles, Europe/Kirov, Europe/Moscow, Europe/Samara, and Europe/Ulyanovsk. Rename Asia/Rangoon to Asia/Yangon, with a backward compatibility link. The IANA crew continue their campaign to replace invented time zone abbrevations with numeric GMT offsets. This update changes numerous zones in Antarctica and the former Soviet Union, for instance Antarctica/Casey now reports "+08" not "AWST" in the pg_timezone_names view. I kept these abbreviations in the tznames/ data files, however, so that we will still accept them for input. (We may want to start trimming those files someday, but today is not that day.) An exception is that since IANA no longer claims that "AMT" is in use in Armenia for GMT+4, I replaced it in the Default file with GMT-4, corresponding to Amazon Time which is in use in South America. It may be that that meaning is also invented and IANA will drop it in a future update; but for now, it seems silly to give pride of place to a meaning not traceable to IANA over one that is.