Open computerquip opened 1 year ago
Any update on this from the maintainers? Can we expect future updates to the tz database in icu.dll? I'm writing a patch for https://github.com/google/cctz (which is used by https://abseil.io/) to support windows https://github.com/google/cctz/issues/53 and trying to figure out if it's a good source of zoneinfo on Windows.
This might be a duplicate of https://github.com/microsoft/icu/issues/120 but the entire library doesn't need to be updated in order to update timezone information, only the timezone resource files. I'm unsure how this is shipped so I could be incorrect on this.
I started creating a custom tzdb using libicu directly for use with
date
/tz
, similar to how STL does it forstd::chrono
and ended up with a hard realization that the TZ database included with the version of libicu shipped on Windows is over 2 years out of date at this point, shipping with version2021a
of the IANA database.So my question is straight forward, is this library meant to be used as a reliable TZ database for Windows?
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