Dave Rolsky wrote:
> 
> It's just that it has to generate _all_
> the time zone changes up to the year 9999!!
> 
> That's going to take a while.  I'd recommend using a year a little closer
> to our own.  DT::TZ ships with the changes pre-generated 30 years out, so
> dates in that range are quick.  Dates within a couple hundred years out
> aren't too bad either, but thousands of years ahead will be slow.

Is this really necessary? It could generate sparse time-zone tables. 

(Date::Set::Timezone does this - maybe some ideas can be reused)

- Flavio S. Glock

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