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Planned updates for new timezone databases?

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
localization

Research direction

Start with the update attempt described in the issue: the eggert dependency for the 2019c timezone database and the build run with make. Read util/transitions.js, especially lines 322-381, and reproduce the failure around Asia/Hong_Kong. Done means the updated database builds without the reported infinite loop.

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Description

Hi,
It looks like it's been a little while since you have updated this library. Do you plan to continue updating/maintaining it?

I made an attempt at updating the eggert dependency in order to pull in the 2019c release, but unfortunately ran into some build failures when running make- specifically, the script seems to go into an infinite loop somewhere in this function, when it reaches Asia/Hong_Kong. If you're able to provide some guidance on what might need to be updated to make the build work, I may be able to take a crack at submitting a patch.
Thank you!

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