Update docs to reflect the fact that we can now deal with DST rules

outside the 32-bit-time_t range.  Also, refer to Olson's tz database
as the 'zoneinfo' database, a name that upstream sometimes uses, not
'zic database' which they never use.

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
index 8b57b0ea7864cf5b381c32fdfdf0340ca617a40d..f36ec178d8820c8d2d049ee68c59dfd68d1c891e 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+
 
  
   Data Types
@@ -2187,11 +2187,11 @@ January 8 04:05:06 1999 PST
     world became somewhat standardized during the 1900's,
     but continue to be prone to arbitrary changes, particularly with
     respect to daylight-savings rules.
-    PostgreSQL currently supports daylight-savings
-    rules over the time period 1902 through 2038 (corresponding to the full
-    range of conventional Unix system time).  Times outside that range are
-    taken to be in standard time for the selected time zone, no
-    matter what part of the year they fall in.
+    PostgreSQL uses the widely-used
+    zoneinfo time zone database for information about
+    historical time zone rules.  For times in the future, the assumption
+    is that the latest known rules for a given time zone will
+    continue to be observed indefinitely far into the future.
    
 
     
@@ -2254,7 +2254,7 @@ January 8 04:05:06 1999 PST
         pg_timezone_names view (see 
         linkend="view-pg-timezone-names">).
         PostgreSQL uses the widely-used
-        zic time zone data for this purpose, so the same
+        zoneinfo time zone data for this purpose, so the same
         names are also recognized by much other software.
        
       
@@ -2287,7 +2287,7 @@ January 8 04:05:06 1999 PST
         be functionally equivalent to USA East Coast time.  When a
         daylight-savings zone name is present, it is assumed to be used
         according to the same daylight-savings transition rules used in the
-        zic time zone database's posixrules entry.
+        zoneinfo time zone database's posixrules entry.
         In a standard PostgreSQL installation,
         posixrules is the same as US/Eastern, so
         that POSIX-style time zone specifications follow USA daylight-savings


diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml

index 73e846e54d244405c6c539ff46b8cea4e310c35f..df715144dbc909ac2441b8fefb5e145988e08920 100644 (file)

--- a/doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+
 
  
   Date/Time Support
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@
     For reference purposes, a standard installation also contains files
     Africa.txt, America.txt, etc, containing
     information about every time zone abbreviation known to be in use
-    according to the zic timezone database.  The zone name
+    according to the zoneinfo timezone database.  The zone name
     definitions found in these files can be copied and pasted into a custom
     configuration file as needed.  Note that these files cannot be directly
     referenced as timezone_abbreviations settings, because of


diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml

index 6b15ffb7b295a5b32e49fd58d9df3323e032af36..72f7960bf87d6f419112fb51228c2f6504a315a0 100644 (file)

--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+
 
 
  <![%standalone-include[<productname>PostgreSQL</>]]></div>
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<div class="diff ctx">         <para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">          <productname>PostgreSQL</> includes its own time zone database,</div>
<div class="diff ctx">          which it requires for date and time operations.  This time zone</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         database is in fact compatible with the <quote>z<span class="marked">ic</span></> time zone</div>
<div class="diff add">+         database is in fact compatible with the <quote>z<span class="marked">oneinfo</span></> time zone</div>
<div class="diff ctx">          database provided by many operating systems such as FreeBSD,</div>
<div class="diff ctx">          Linux, and Solaris, so it would be redundant to install it again.</div>
<div class="diff ctx">          When this option is used, the system-supplied time zone database</div>
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml
index 73e846e54d244405c6c539ff46b8cea4e310c35f..df715144dbc909ac2441b8fefb5e145988e08920 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/datetime.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+
 
  
   Date/Time Support
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@
     For reference purposes, a standard installation also contains files
     Africa.txt, America.txt, etc, containing
     information about every time zone abbreviation known to be in use
-    according to the zic timezone database.  The zone name
+    according to the zoneinfo timezone database.  The zone name
     definitions found in these files can be copied and pasted into a custom
     configuration file as needed.  Note that these files cannot be directly
     referenced as timezone_abbreviations settings, because of

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
index 6b15ffb7b295a5b32e49fd58d9df3323e032af36..72f7960bf87d6f419112fb51228c2f6504a315a0 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/installation.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-
+
 
 
  <![%standalone-include[<productname>PostgreSQL</>]]></div>
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<div class="diff ctx">         <para></div>
<div class="diff ctx">          <productname>PostgreSQL</> includes its own time zone database,</div>
<div class="diff ctx">          which it requires for date and time operations.  This time zone</div>
<div class="diff rem">-         database is in fact compatible with the <quote>z<span class="marked">ic</span></> time zone</div>
<div class="diff add">+         database is in fact compatible with the <quote>z<span class="marked">oneinfo</span></> time zone</div>
<div class="diff ctx">          database provided by many operating systems such as FreeBSD,</div>
<div class="diff ctx">          Linux, and Solaris, so it would be redundant to install it again.</div>
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