Re: Anyone want to update our Windows timezone map?

Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> We have certainly not been doing that on a regular basis (as best I can
>> tell, no such changes have been made since 2010).  Does anybody who uses
>> Windows want to deal with it?  Or at least do it once so that our Windows
>> TZ info is less than 5 years out of date?

> By the way, I noticed that Unicode CLDR publishes this data set which
> seems to be the same sort of thing:
> http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/29/supplemental/zone_tzid.html

> Could that be a better source than dumping stuff from arbitrary
> Windows versions?

Well, the point is that we need to recognize the timezone names that
Windows actually uses.  A list of strings that's more or less the same
doesn't really cut it ...
        regards, tom lane