Alternative time zone database
mathieuprog opened this issue · comments
elixirschool suggests to install the Tzdata library for handling time zones. However this library is currently very bugged and may also crash the application, see https://elixirforum.com/t/29358
Two reliable time zone libraries are:
- tz (mine) https://github.com/mathieuprog/tz
- time_zone_info https://github.com/hrzndhrn/time_zone_info
Thanks @mathieuprog! We'll need to go back and review this content and decide how best to proceed.
I'd really like to avoid linking out to external libraries to avoid issues like this now and in the future. It quickly becomes a burden on the maintainers to keep track of which libraries are being updated, which support the current Elixir version, etc.
Maybe you can link here then:
https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.12/DateTime.html#module-time-zone-database
Great idea 🎉