Re: [PHP-DEV] Timezone Rules, which dataset to pick?

2022-04-07 Thread Michael Wallner
On 07/04/2022 11.34, Derick Rethans wrote: > Hi! ... > In the last few years, the maintainer of the Iana TZ Data project has > diverged somewhat from the consensus of the community, and degraded some > data by no longer having an entry for each country and merged timezones > where data does not

Re: [PHP-DEV] Timezone Rules, which dataset to pick?

2022-04-07 Thread Derick Rethans
On Thu, 7 Apr 2022, Nikita Popov wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 11:34 AM Derick Rethans wrote: > > > Java's date/time maintainer has created a fork based on the original > > Iana TZ data to put back some of the removed/deprecated data to > > better serve their users, and I would think that

Re: [PHP-DEV] Timezone Rules, which dataset to pick?

2022-04-07 Thread Nikita Popov
On Thu, Apr 7, 2022 at 11:34 AM Derick Rethans wrote: > Hi! > > As you might be aware, I maintain the date time support in PHP. As part > of that I regularly have to update the rules that timezones employ - > changes in Daylight Saving Time rules, or other changes to rules due to > political

[PHP-DEV] Timezone Rules, which dataset to pick?

2022-04-07 Thread Derick Rethans
Hi! As you might be aware, I maintain the date time support in PHP. As part of that I regularly have to update the rules that timezones employ - changes in Daylight Saving Time rules, or other changes to rules due to political foibles. In the last few years, the maintainer of the Iana TZ