May 15, 2020
1:43 p.m.
On Wed, 2020-05-13 at 19:13 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
Yup. The method I'd suggest is tzdata.zi if available, or the "shorter list" mentioned above, whichever's faster. This is because zone1970.tab and zone.tab don't list some of the duplicates, and some users like the duplicates.
If you also want the leap-second entries, you'll need the right/* entries though.
I am thinking the best approach should be reading tzdata.zi when available, and potentially fallback to ignoring posix/* and right/* and posixrules. I am not sure about this last one though, for reasons outlined in the PR. What do you think Paul (G.)? Filipe Laíns