Re: [OT?] Time-zone database down [was: Re: timezone buglet?]

Andrea Suisani wrote:
> On 10/05/2011 07:37 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > daveg<daveg(at)sonic(dot)net> writes:
> >> Postgresql 9.0.4 has the timezone:
> >> America/Blanc-Sablon
> >> However other sources seem to spell this with an underscore instead of dash:
> >> America/Blanc_Sablon
> >
> > I don't know what "other sources" you're consulting, but "Blanc-Sablon"
> > is the way it appears in the Olson timezone database, and that's what
> > we follow.
>
> Speaking of Olson tz database, I've just stumbled across this post
> and I thought it would be worthy to report it here:
>
> http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html

I suppose there is nothing stopping them from attacking people who
distribute the database, like Postgres, Red Hat, etc.

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