Data.Time.Zones.Read

Various ways of loading TZ

loadTZFromFile :: FilePath -> IO TZ

Reads and parses a time zone information file (in tzfile(5) aka. Olson file format) and returns the corresponding TZ data structure.

loadSystemTZ :: String -> IO TZ

Looks for the time zone file in the system timezone directory, which is /usr/share/zoneinfo, or if the TZDIR environment variable is set, then there.

loadLocalTZ :: IO TZ

Returns the local TZ based on the TZ and TZDIR environment variables.

See tzset(3) for details, but basically:

• If TZ environment variable is unset, we loadTZFromFile "/etc/localtime".
• If TZ is set, but empty, we loadSystemTZ "UTC".
• Otherwise, we just loadSystemTZ it.

Note, this means we don't support POSIX-style TZ variables (like "EST5EDT"), only those that are explicitly present in the time zone database.

loadTZFromDB :: String -> IO TZ

Reads the corresponding file from the time zone database shipped with this package.

Reading only the description, no parsing

tzDescriptionFromFile :: FilePath -> IO ByteString

tzDescriptionFromDB :: String -> IO ByteString

systemTZDescription :: String -> IO ByteString

Parsing Olson data

olsonGet :: Get TZ

parseTZDescription :: ByteString -> TZ