Another tz compiler

[Brian S O'Neill]

Yes, that is a good summary, thanks.

Although I've not looked into it much, Joda-Time should be able to 
support Martian time. It would need a new chronology, like 
MartianChronology. All the other classes should then be able to work 
against Martian time. New Martian time zones would have to be supplied. 
Since Joda-Time uses  timestamps measured in Earth milliseconds, there 
might be sight errors in times and time zone offsets. "MTC-9" would have 
an offset of 33290716 milliseconds, which is 0.5 ms off.

Paul Eggert wrote:

>Thanks for the heads-up.  I'll propose something like the following in
>my next patch.
>
><li><a href="http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/">Joda Time - Java date
>and time API</a> contains a class
><code>org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler</code> that compiles
><code>tz</code> source into a binary format that can be used by the
>rest of the Joda API. Joda Time is freely available under a BSD-style
>license.</li>
>
>
>PS.  I wonder whether Joda Time can support Martian local time.  See:
>
>Michael Allison and Robert Schmunk,
>"Technical Notes on Mars Solar Time as Adopted by the Mars24 Sunclock"
><http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/help/notes.html> (2004-01-31).
>
>  
>