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British Colombia, Time Zones, and Postgres

The article discusses how PostgreSQL handles time zone changes, using British Columbia's potential switch to permanent Daylight Saving Time as a case study. It explains the challenges of managing time zone data in databases, particularly the need to update the IANA time zone database (tzdata) and the importance of careful application design to handle historical and future time zone transitions.

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