On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 3:46 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > Masahiko Sawada <sawada.m...@gmail.com> writes: > > tzdata 2025b has been released on 3/22[1]. Do we need to update the > > tzdata.zi file on HEAD and backbranches? > > Yup, eventually, but I don't normally worry about it until we are > approaching a release date. tzdata changes often come in bunches > around the spring and fall equinoxes, which is when governments > tend to rush out DST changes without thinking about lead times :-(. > So it's entirely possible that 2025b will already be obsolete by May. > (See for example ecbac3e6e and d8fc45bd0, when I thought I'd waited > long enough and was wrong.) > > The situation might be different with a tzdata release that affects > our regression test results, but I don't believe this one does. >
Thank you for the explanation! That makes sense. We'll revisit it around minor release. Regards, -- Masahiko Sawada Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com
