Ah, systemd in fact had tzdata parsing code already – it was used by
tinedatectl to show DST info. Try to recover it from Git.

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 21:03 Ran Benita <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 06:35:15PM +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> > So yeah, we'd love to support this, but are waiting for a suitable API.
>
> I see, makes sense.
>
> Since new glibc API will probably be slow to come, if ever, it might
> make sense to circumvent it and go for the tzdata directly? It seems the
> format is described in tzfile(5), and the glibc code which handles it
> seems to be public domain as well: https://github.com/eggert/tz
> I don't have any experience with those APIs, though.
>
> If I get some time I'll try and see if such an approach is viable.
>
> Thanks!
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