Nov. 20, 2017
6:55 p.m.
Daniel Ford wrote:
I've also decided, in the absence of a significant number of TZdb mirror sites, to host the unzipped files on my own server,
If you're doing that, you don't need the Arduino to process the files of the tzdb distro directly. You could process the files on your server into a more Arduino-friendly format. Host compiled tzfiles, as an initial version. For extra credit you could cut down the tzfiles to cover only the restricted time span of interest to the clocks (ten minutes ago to ten years hence). Your downloads could be really short in that case. In fact, small enough to look at UDP transport, for bonus network lightness. DNS is also a viable transport mechanism for objects that small. -zefram