[tz] FW: Beginner's help request

Howard Hinnant howard.hinnant at gmail.com
Wed Nov 8 20:18:20 UTC 2017


It requires a C++11 compiler.  There’s one function: current_zone(), that is highly platform-specific.  I have no idea if the current implementation (e.g. what works for linux) would work on Arduino.  If you’re interested in helping me port to Arduino, I would be interested in accepting patches that made that work.

Howard

On Nov 7, 2017, at 11:38 PM, Daniel Ford <dfnojunk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Oops, looks like I was mistaken.  Howard's library appears to be not (specifically) for Arduino, but a C++ library for Windows (and maybe other) platforms.  Maybe it will compile in the Arduino IDE, though I suspect it will be problematic, if possible at all.
> 
> And I've so far found only one TZdb mirror that keeps a current copy of the data - very disappointing.  It's a shame the whole TZdb scheme is so user-unfriendly.  Quite discouraging.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Ford [mailto:dfnojunk at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2017 7:03 PM
> To: 'Time zone mailing list'
> Subject: RE: [tz] Beginner's help request
> 
> Woohoo!  I've discovered (and downloaded) an Arduino library, written by Howard E. Hinnant:
> 
> "This timezone library is a complete parser of the IANA timezone database.  It provides for an easy way to access all of the data in this database, using the types from "date.h" and <chrono>.  The IANA database also includes data on leap seconds, and this library provides utilities to compute with that information as well."
> 
> All I need to find now are established TZdb mirrors that keep their copy up-to-date, so I don't overload the master TZdb with queries.  Can anyone point me to any, please?
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> ---------------
> Daniel Ford (Gerroa, Australia)
> <README.txt>

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