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:warning: Before you begin, note that Moment Timezone is in [maintenance-only mode](https://momentjs.com/docs/#/-project-status/).
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Bug fixes and performance improvements will still be accepted, and IANA data updates
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will continue to be released.
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will continue to be released via a semi-automated process.
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However, new features or API changes are **unlikely to be accepted** as pull requests.
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## Compiling data
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:warning: **NOTE:** These instructions are for anyone who wants to create a custom
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data build for their own purposes. Official data updates are created by an
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[automated workflow](./.github/workflows/build-data.yml) to ensure consistency
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(the behaviour of tools like `zdump` can vary wildly across platforms).
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Therefore, **contributor pull requests for data updates will not be accepted**.
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There are several steps to compiling the timezone data. These have all been
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bundled into one grunt task to make releases easy.
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bundled into one grunt task to make updates easy.
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Besides the `node`, `npm`, and `grunt` dependencies, there are also a few unix
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dependencies.

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