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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/9/21 2:38 PM, Brian Park via tz
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class="gmail_default">Is the TZDB project intended to
support only POSIX systems? I had assumed that the C library
was the reference implementation, and the TZif was the file
format supporting the reference implementation, not the API
into the TZDB. For my downstream library, I parse the raw
zone files directly from GitHub. That makes it easy to
integrate into the GitHub Actions continuous build system,
and I can test against the most recent commits. My
downstream usage does not have a file system, or even an
operating system. For me, the API into the TZDB project are
the raw files, but I understand that my usage is unusual.<br>
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<p>FWIW, vzic (I have been maintaining a fork of the original in
libical) also uses the raw files to create iCalendar VTIMEZONE
components.<br>
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Kenneth Murchison
Senior Software Developer
Fastmail US LLC</pre>
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