tzif: support pathological transitions #164
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It turns out that some TZif files seem to have "pathological"
transitions that are very far in the past. So far, in fact, that they
are outside the supported range of Jiff's
Timestamp
(that is,-9999-01-01
to9999-12-31
). This in turn caused parsing such TZiffiles to fail.
But they are technically valid TZif files. There's nothing that says,
e.g.,
i64::MIN
is an illegal transition value.So we support them here by simply clamping out-of-range time zone
transitions to Jiff's range. While this could in theory be invalid for
some possible TZif files, they would need to be specifically constructed
to be invalid. In practice, there are no DST rules at the boundaries of
what Jiff supports, so this should be fine.
Fixes #163