<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I keep a bit of an eye on the Node.js ecosystem for tz-related projects, and I also recommend not linking to the “timezone” keyword page on <a href="http://npmjs.com" class="">npmjs.com</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many projects listed on that page are API wrappers of the moment-timezone project, and some are integration points for frontend frameworks. Many others are small scripts written by people who clearly haven’t encountered the ambiguities and ever-changing definitions that happen when dealing with time zones. For example, I know of one package that simply returns the UTC offset of a named time zone, but completely fails to account for daylight saving time.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A low barrier to entry means digging a bit to find the good stuff. When it comes to the Node ecosystem, a curated list of known high-quality projects is always better than linking to a keyword search.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 13 Dec 2016, at 4:20 AM, Evan Siroky via tz <<a href="mailto:tz@iana.org" class="">tz@iana.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue-Light', 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481141408055_312885" class="">The package tz-lookup and geo-tz are independent of each other. As far as I know, the major difference between the two is the data source that is used. geo-tz is released under the MIT license.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481141408055_312884" class=""><br clear="none" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481141408055_314277" class=""></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1481141408055_312924" class="">Feel free to link to the timezone tag. Although in my opinion a lot of the packages aren't the best because they don't get updated frequently enough with changes to the timezone db.</div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1481563052140" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="yMail_cursorElementTracker_1481563052269" class="">Evan</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div class="yQTDBase yqt3404022911" id="yqt30369"><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display:block;"> <div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px;" class=""> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px;" class=""> <div dir="ltr" class=""><font size="2" face="Arial" class=""> On Saturday, 10 December 2016, 12:02, Paul Eggert <<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" class="">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>> wrote:<br clear="none" class=""></font></div> <br clear="none" class=""><br class=""><div class="y_msg_container">In looking at <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://www.npmjs.com/browse/keyword/timezone" class="">https://www.npmjs.com/browse/keyword/timezone</a>> I see several more <br clear="none" class="">Node.js time zone packages that seem relevant. Perhaps we should link to that page?<br clear="none" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>