Hi Philipp, On Mon, 2022-06-06 at 17:19 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On 31.05.22 10:14, Robert Greener wrote: > > The goal of this package is to distribute the standard Time Zone > > Database in a cabal package, so that it can be used in Haskell > > programs uniformly on all platforms. > > > > This package currently ships the 2022a version of the time zone > > database. The version of the time zone database shipped is always > > reflected in the version of this package: x.y.YYYYMMDD.z, then > > YYYYMMDD is the official release date of time zone database. > I'm not sure further proliferation of this data that needs updating > frequently is helpful. Is there any way this data could instead be > read > from disk - i.e. the from the existing tzdata package? > > This would add up to the load of all the various packages of various > languages that already need updating with every tzdata release. This comment has already been made in the notes for the bug for the corresponding tz package (#1012167). I've patched the package so that it reads the data from the disk, so essentially the tzdata is a wrapper around the system files. Therefore, it wouldn't need to be updated if tzdata is. -- Robert
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