On 2026-07-20 11:55, gil.cottle--- via tz wrote:
chrono-tz is deprecated[1]. Prefer to use jiff[2] which the community seems to
have standardized around.
Thanks for the heads-up. I installed the attached into the development
TZDB sources on GitHub.From 94c29419fe5d514c2abc4ef49995c50e5a031e28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:51:04 -0700
Subject: [PROPOSED] Suggest jiff over Chrono-TZ
* tz-link.html: Update Rust crate list. Suggested by Gil Cottle in:
https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/BCXRE6XVXHN7ETAGPOPQVAMYLOLRAGQE/
---
tz-link.html | 11 +++++++----
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tz-link.html b/tz-link.html
index f60b6cd1..6afc576a 100644
--- a/tz-link.html
+++ b/tz-link.html
@@ -578,10 +578,6 @@ Ruby Timezone Library</a>
compiles <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> source into
<a href="https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/";>Ruby</a>.
It is freely available under the <abbr>MIT</abbr> license.</li>
-<li><a href="https://crates.io/crates/chrono-tz";>Chrono-TZ</a>
-compiles <code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> source into
-<a href="https://rust-lang.org/";>Rust</a>.
-It is freely available under the <abbr>MIT</abbr> or Apache licenses.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://www.squeaksource.com/Chronos/";>Chronos Date/Time
Library</a> is
a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk";>Smalltalk</a> class
@@ -667,6 +663,13 @@ converts <abbr>TZif</abbr> data into
<abbr>JSON</abbr>-format data suitable for use
in its JavaScript library for time zone conversion. Dates before 1970
are not supported.</li>
+<li>The <a href="https://crates.io/crates/jiff";>jiff</a> datetime library
+for <a href="https://rust-lang.org/";>Rust</a> either compiles
+<code><abbr>tz</abbr></code> source into Rust,
+or consults <abbr>TZif</abbr> data at runtime.
+It is in the public domain.
+It intends to supplant the soft-deprecated
+<a href="https://crates.io/crates/chrono-tz";>Chrono-TZ</a>.</li>
<li>The <a
href="https://hackage.haskell.org/package/timezone-olson";>timezone-olson</a>
package contains <a href="https://www.haskell.org";>Haskell</a> code that
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