[local-time-devel] The Official Timezone Repository: http://www.date-time-zone.com/

[Daniel Lowe]

Attila Lendvai wrote:
> just wanted to share this link, which seems to be The Official
> Timezone Repository, updated every few weeks:
> http://www.date-time-zone.com/
> 
> they have an xml version that contains a nice structured
> representation of the timezone info.

That's great, but I don't think we can realistically use this.  I'd rather not
    a) introduce a dependency on or include an xml parser
and b) have to parse a 6.7MB file for timezone information, the majority of
which a user will never use.

I'm unsatisfied with the way we're handling timezones, but I think the eventual
way forward is to parse the uncompiled tzdata files, which are guaranteed to be
maintained and have a one-file-per-timezone structure.

: Daniel :