Paul Dicker

> Use of the system property as an API is not great, but depending on the format of the timezone database is worse (especially for applications outside of the platform)...

The nice thing about doing the calculations in chrono is that we can improve over what libc offers: - We can return the offset abbreviation, as in https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/pull/750 (to fix...

> From what I understand there are changes in other Linux distributions too. The syntax of the format is stable, but the semantics (i.e. what gets filled in and the...

> I work on the platform so my primary concern is with that, and the immediate issue I'm trying to solve is that we are blocked on updating the version...

That is the current status of this PR?

Reintroducing [CVE-2020-26235](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26235)/[RUSTSEC-2020-0159](https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2020-0159.html), which caused chrono a lot of pain (and moved a good number of users to time-rs which was earlier with a kind of fix), is not something to...

> I strongly recommend some tests to confirm the panic. It's an important behavior presumption to verify as it has a large affect on the important parts of chrono. e.g....

I've opened an issue for using `localtime_rz` on Android if available. Closing this PR.

@jtmoon79 Sorry it took so long, thank you for the review!

I wondered if I could use floats as they may not be supported by all targets, and the CI gives the answer: no. I'll figure something out with just integers.