Re: DST patch

["Jeff Blakeney" <jeff.blakeney@a2central.com.remove-l7k-this>]

  To: geoff
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:09:47 -0600, geoff wrote:

> Please don't consider using the TimeZone CDEV that I wrote ten years ago.  It 
> is way too hard to attempt to expand it for modern time zone data.  Most OS 
> vendors get their time zone data from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ so it makes 
> sense for the Apple IIgs to use the same data.  I recommend scrapping the 
> TimeZone CDEV completely.

Well, I wasn't actually going to use your actual TimeZone CDEV but write
similar functionality into a replacement Time CDEV.  :-)

> This means that the Time Tool would also need to be 
> updated to handle the time zone format changes.

I hadn't thought about the Time Tool but that shouldn't be too hard to
update either.

> It would be really clever if the latest tzdata file can be identified and 
> downloaded automatically so the developer wouldn't have to generate new 
> releases ten or so times a year (that assumes that the tzdata format doesn't 
> require a new parser).  One should review the tzcode and look at that 
> feasibility.

Thanks for the heads up.  I'm slowly getting back to developing on my
IIgs again and if I can finish the project I'm working on now, I'll look
into the tzdata format because this sounds like an interesting project.