Improve re-compilation for future ZonedDateTime beyond 2038

[hsteinacker-siz]

Dear TimeZones Community,

when re-compiling the TimeZones package (v1.18.0) to use ZoneDateTime beyond 2038 with TimeZones.TZData.compile(max_year=2200), we ran into several problems:

• we first had to manually create the folder /.julia/scratchspaces/f269a46b-ccf7-5d73-abea-4c690281aa53/build/tzsource/2024a
• then we had to manually download the tz data from IANA and deleted all files except the ones named as continents (otherwise all file were tried to be read in leading to errors)
• finally we had to manually create the destination folder for the recompilation at .julia/scratchspaces/f269a46b-ccf7-5d73-abea-4c690281aa53/build/compiled/tzjf/v1/2024a.

Is this the intended way to do this? If yes, this may should be explained in the documentation, as it took us some time to figure this out.

Many thank for the development of this package!

[omus]

Thanks for reporting this. It looks like some of the TZJFile revisions that happened a while ago broke this code path.