README.md
Tzdata
======
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Tzdata. The [timezone database](https://www.iana.org/time-zones) in Elixir.
Extracted from the [Calendar](https://github.com/lau/calendar) library.
As of version 0.1.6 the tz release 2015e (from 2015-06-13 10:56:02 -0700)
is used. The tz release version can be verified with the following function:
```elixir
iex> Tzdata.tzdata_version
"2015e"
```
## Getting started
Use through the [Calendar](https://github.com/lau/calendar) library
or directly: it is available on hex as `tzdata`.
```elixir
defp deps do
[ {:tzdata, "~> 0.1.7"}, ]
end
```
## Documentation
Documentation can be found at http://hexdocs.pm/tzdata/
## When new timezone data is released
IANA releases new versions of the [timezone database](https://www.iana.org/time-zones) frequently. When that
happens, hopefully this library will be updated within 24 hours with the new
data and a new version of the tzdata Elixir package will be released.
As an alternative to getting a new version of tzdata, users of this library
can simply run the `dl_latest_data.sh` script and then recompile tzdata. Running
that script will update the data in the `source_data` directory. The files in the
`source_data` directory contains all the information about the timezones
and is used by the tzdata library at compile time.
## License
The tzdata Elixir library is released under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file.
The tz database files (found in the source_data directory) is public domain.