Bug #118693 for Time-Zone-Olson: Feature request: alternative Olson data source

Thu Nov 10 07:04:28 2016 andreas.guldstrand [...] gmail.com - Ticket created

Subject:	Feature request: alternative Olson data source
Date:	Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:04:17 +0100
To:	bug-Time-Zone-Olson [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Andreas Guldstrand <andreas.guldstrand [...] gmail.com>

This is not a bug report, but a feature request: Would you consider adding Time::OlsonTZ::Data as a prereq on systems without /usr/share/zoneinfo? It's not currently being updated though, but it should be better than nothing. I've sent a bugreport to its queue about getting it updated again: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=118692

Fri Nov 11 03:38:26 2016 DDICK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Thu Nov 10 23:04:28 2016, andreas.guldstrand@gmail.com wrote: Show quoted text

> This is not a bug report, but a feature request: > > Would you consider adding Time::OlsonTZ::Data as a prereq on systems > without /usr/share/zoneinfo?

Is this an approach designed to address the Win32 lack of zoneinfo files? If so, i would prefer to build a wrapper that interrogates the Win32 registry for time zone information and then translate that information into Olson timezones (for example "America/New_York"). Would that address your problem?

Fri Nov 11 03:38:26 2016 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Nov 11 04:01:40 2016 andreas.guldstrand [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added

Subject:	Re: [rt.cpan.org #118693] Feature request: alternative Olson data source
Date:	Fri, 11 Nov 2016 10:01:29 +0100
To:	bug-Time-Zone-Olson [...] rt.cpan.org
From:	Andreas Guldstrand <andreas.guldstrand [...] gmail.com>

On 11 November 2016 at 09:38, David Dick via RT <bug-Time-Zone-Olson@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text

> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118693 > > > On Thu Nov 10 23:04:28 2016, andreas.guldstrand@gmail.com wrote:

>> This is not a bug report, but a feature request: >> >> Would you consider adding Time::OlsonTZ::Data as a prereq on systems >> without /usr/share/zoneinfo?

> > Is this an approach designed to address the Win32 lack of zoneinfo files? > > If so, i would prefer to build a wrapper that interrogates the Win32 registry for time zone information and then translate that information into Olson timezones (for example "America/New_York"). > > Would that address your problem?

Yes, that would be an excellent solution, thanks =)

Tue May 28 16:39:17 2019 DDICK [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Fri Nov 11 20:01:40 2016, andreas.guldstrand@gmail.com wrote: Show quoted text

> > If so, i would prefer to build a wrapper that interrogates the Win32 > > registry for time zone information and then translate that > > information into Olson timezones (for example "America/New_York"). > > > > Would that address your problem?

> > Yes, that would be an excellent solution, thanks =)

Done.

Tue May 28 16:39:18 2019 DDICK [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 0.18 added

Tue May 28 16:40:25 2019 DDICK [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'