Re: [9front] Re: Date and time handling.

[magma698hfsp273p9f@icebubble.org]

ori@eigenstate.org writes:

> One thing that will annoy me: Currently, you need to specify the timezone
> as the filename, eg, "US_Eastern", rather than as the well known name,
> eg, "EST". There are two reasons for this.
>
> 1) We have no way to map from a timezone to the name, other than 
>    opening each timezone file and reading the first line.
>
> 2) The timezone name that we store in those files is wrong. We only
>    have 3 characters for the timezone, so "Australia_Tasmania" becomes
>    EST instead of AEST.
>
> I can hard-code a mapping, but that kind of sucks. I'd like to parse
> the IANA timezone database and generate files instead, either with a
> separate 'tzmap' file, or with duplicates for the abbreviated zones
> that we can open directly.

# hm... why not use ndb?  file=... to split the db among multiple files
tzfs -f /ndb/timezone /srv/tzfs
mount /srv/tzfs /adm/timezone

> RFC3339:
> 	YYYY-01-DDThh:mm:ss[Z]ZZ

More human-readable variants of RFC3339:

YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss Z
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss z
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss 0
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss +0400
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss -0400
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss +5
YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss -0
YYYY-MM-DD @ hh:mm:ss
YYYY-MM-DD @ hh:mm:ss +830
YYYY-MM-DD @ hh:mm:ss -0315
YYYY-MM-DD @ hh:mm:ss -3
YYYY-MM-DD @ hh:mm:ss +0
YYYY-MM-DD @ hh:mm:ss 0000