On 28/04/2020 10:55, Tony Whyman wrote: > On 28/04/2020 14:47, Mark Rotteveel wrote: >> On 28-04-2020 15:43, Tony Whyman wrote: >>> Apologies. I forgot to mention that I was worrying about using the >>> ICU for the time zone database rather than character sets. >> >> Why does that worry you? >> >> Mark > > Because my understanding is that the ICU is the source of the time > zone database and will have to be updated every time a time zone > changes or there are changes to the dates for daylight savings time > coming into effect. Here's one of many examples: >
https://github.com/FirebirdSQL/firebird/blob/master/doc/sql.extensions/README.time_zone.md#updating-the-time-zone-database Adriano Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
