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    Sync our copy of the timezone library with IANA release tzcode2019a. · acb897b8
    Tom Lane authored
    This corrects a small bug in zic that caused it to output an incorrect
    year-2440 transition in the Africa/Casablanca zone.
    
    More interestingly, zic has grown a "-r" option that limits the range of
    zone transitions that it will put into the output files.  That might be
    useful to people who don't like the weird GMT offsets that tzdb likes
    to use for very old dates.  It appears that for dates before the cutoff
    time specified with -r, zic will use the zone's standard-time offset
    as of the cutoff time.  So for example one might do
    
    	make install ZIC_OPTIONS='-r @-1893456000'
    
    to cause all dates before 1910-01-01 to be treated as though 1910
    standard time prevailed indefinitely far back.  (Don't blame me for
    the unfriendly way of specifying the cutoff time --- it's seconds
    since or before the Unix epoch.  You can use extract(epoch ...)
    to calculate it.)
    
    As usual, back-patch to all supported branches.
    acb897b8
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