Provide user friendly exceptions with deprecated time zones
As discussed in #419 when a time zone becomes deprecated as "Europe/Amsterdam" was as of tzdata release 2022f they see the following error:
julia> using TimeZones
julia> tz"Europe/Amsterdam"
ERROR: LoadError: ArgumentError: The time zone "Europe/Amsterdam" is of class `TimeZones.Class(:LEGACY)` which is currently not allowed by the mask: `TimeZones.Class(:FIXED) | TimeZones.Class(:STANDARD)`
Stacktrace:
[1] TimeZone(str::String, mask::TimeZones.Class)
@ TimeZones ~/.julia/dev/TimeZones/src/types/timezone.jl:51
[2] TimeZone(str::String)
@ TimeZones ~/.julia/dev/TimeZones/src/types/timezone.jl:42
[3] var"@tz_str"(__source__::LineNumberNode, __module__::Module, str::Any)
@ TimeZones ~/.julia/dev/TimeZones/src/types/timezone.jl:72
in expression starting at REPL[17]:1
This error does not provide the user with the details of any possible replacement for the deprecated time zone. The backward region file contains this information and for 2022f it states that "Europe/Brussels" is the replacement for "Europe/Amsterdam". Providing this information to users would allow an easy upgrade path instead of having them rely on a legacy time zone via TimeZones("Europe/Amsterdam", TimeZones.Class(:LEGACY)) or choose an alternate time zone which may be incorrect.
Deprecations are commonly included in minor version bumps for Julia packages. The difference here is that TimeZones.jl doesn't allow the use of legacy/deprecated time zones by default. I could see an argument to be made for tying the default TimeZone.Class with the
--depwarnflag and having--depwarn=errorbe the only mode whereTimeZone.Class(:LEGACY)is disallowed. – https://github.com/JuliaTime/TZJData.jl/issues/31#issuecomment-2341738128