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Re: Bug#1012166: ITP: haskell-tzdata -- Haskell package that distributes the standard time zone database



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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