Consider support for global-tz
jskeet opened this issue · comments
The repo at https://github.com/JodaOrg/global-tz is derived from the IANA database, but reinstating data that has been removed.
Currently we still just include the IANA database, but we should consider:
- Including global-db as a "built-in" source in the package
- Publishing global-db NZD files on nodatime.org
We could start with just the second option, and then add the first later...
Just needed this, I had to validate pre 1970 dates, but since they are so off I can't use Nodatime for this. Seems like they have merged four timezones, so Europe/Oslo is now same as Europe/Berlin. Some data may also be in the backzone file, but Nodatime does not use that unfortunately.
@raymond-holmboe: One option for now would be for you to build the NZD file yourself. The code is all in this repo, in NodaTime.TzdbCompiler. I'm still currently reluctant to do significant work on automating this (for limited demand). Thanks for expressing your requirement though - one data point is better than none :)