On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 3:40 AM Palle Girgensohn <gir...@pingpong.net> wrote: > The decision to use postgresql's tzdata is quite old. It was based on the > assumption that postgres is updated more frequently than the operating > system, and that for that reason it was better to use postgresql's tzdata, > since it would be more accurate more often. This is probably not true > anymore, so I agree it should probably be changed to default=system-tzdata on > FreeBSD. > > I will commit an upgrade in Thursday, and unless anybody raise their voice > against it, I will change the default setting then.
Thanks! FreeBSD users already have the choice between zoneinfo from base or the misc/zoneinfo port if for some reason they want to control tzdata updates separately. PostgreSQL and FreeBSD both track tzdata closely, and both pushed a commit for version 2019c into their stable branches within a couple of weeks of it being released, so I don't foresee any problem with this change, and staying in sync with libc seems to outweigh any other concerns IMHO. https://www.iana.org/time-zones https://github.com/postgres/postgres/tree/REL_12_STABLE/src/timezone/data https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/stable/12/contrib/tzdata
