darcs patch: Figure out timezone offset from timezone name

[Bjorn Bringert]

On Feb 2, 2008 8:49 PM, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 11:36 -0800, Don Stewart wrote:
> > david:
> > > Sat Feb  2 12:33:17 CET 2008  David Leuschner <david at loisch.de>
> > >   * Figure out timezone offset from timezone name
> >
> > This should be forwarded to the time library maintainer, Bjorn Bringert.
>
> If that is the case then he should probably update the email address
> that darcs uses:
>
> http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/time/_darcs/prefs/email
>
> It is currently set to this list.
>
> Duncan

I also thought that Ashley Yakeley was the maintainer. I have written
the code that this patch concerns though. The patch seems nice, but
there are some problems:

- Time zone information is not static.
- Time zone names are sometimes ambiguous.

Shouldn't we really use the OS time zone database for this?

/Björn