Crate localzone

Utility crate to figure out the IANA (Olson) timezone of the current machine. The IANA timezones have been largely established as the standard for identifying timezones but retrieving the current timezone in that format is a surprisingly complex problem. Additionally Windows machines use an incompatible timezone system and this crate helps automaticaly mapping these to the IANA timezones. For this it uses the CLDR maintained timezone mapping.

Getting Timezones

To retrieve the current timezone call the get_local_zone function. It will try different sources to get the current timezone. When the auto_validation feature is enabled it will attempt to validate each source against the current chrono_tz database. Alternatively get_local_zone_with_validation can be used an be supplied an alternative validator function.

If the timezone cannot be found a user of this crate shall assume the system is running in UTC.

Features

The following optional features exist:

• auto_validation: when enabled timezones encountered are validated with chrono_tz by default.
• win_zones: when enabled functions are exposed to map between windows and IANA timezones.

Functions

get_local_zone

Returns the local timezone if it can be found.

get_local_zone_with_validation

Returns the local timezone validating it with a custom function.

iana_to_win_zone

Look up a windows timezone for an IANA zone.

win_zone_to_iana

Given a windows zone name and an optional territory code returns the IANA zone.