Struct IanaParser

pub struct IanaParser { /* private fields */ }

A parser between IANA time zone identifiers and BCP-47 time zone identifiers.

This parser supports two-way mapping, but it is optimized for the case of IANA to BCP-47. It also supports normalizing and canonicalizing the IANA strings.

There are approximately 600 IANA identifiers and 450 BCP-47 identifiers.

BCP-47 time zone identifiers are 8 ASCII characters or less and currently average 5.1 characters long. Current IANA time zone identifiers are less than 40 ASCII characters and average 14.2 characters long.

These lists grow very slowly; in a typical year, 2-3 new identifiers are added.

Normalization vs Canonicalization

Multiple IANA time zone identifiers can refer to the same BCP-47 time zone. For example, the following three IANA identifiers all map to "usind":

• “America/Fort_Wayne”
• “America/Indiana/Indianapolis”
• “America/Indianapolis”
• “US/East-Indiana”

There is only one canonical identifier, which is “America/Indiana/Indianapolis”. The canonicalization operation returns the canonical identifier. You should canonicalize if you need to compare time zones for equality. Note that the canonical identifier can change over time. For example, the identifier “Europe/Kiev” was renamed to the newly-added identifier “Europe/Kyiv” in 2022.

The normalization operation, on the other hand, keeps the input identifier but normalizes the casing. For example, “AMERICA/FORT_WAYNE” normalizes to “America/Fort_Wayne”. Normalization is a data-driven operation because there are no algorithmic casing rules that work for all IANA time zone identifiers.

Normalization is a cheap operation, but canonicalization might be expensive, since it might require searching over all IANA IDs to find the canonicalization. If you need canonicalization that is reliably fast, use IanaParserExtended.

Examples

use icu::time::zone::IanaParser;
use icu::time::TimeZone;
use tinystr::tinystr;

let parser = IanaParser::new();

// The IANA zone "Australia/Melbourne" is the BCP-47 zone "aumel":
assert_eq!(
    parser.parse("Australia/Melbourne"),
    TimeZone(tinystr!(8, "aumel"))
);

// Lookup is ASCII-case-insensitive:
assert_eq!(
    parser.parse("australia/melbourne"),
    TimeZone(tinystr!(8, "aumel"))
);

// The IANA zone "Australia/Victoria" is an alias:
assert_eq!(
    parser.parse("Australia/Victoria"),
    TimeZone(tinystr!(8, "aumel"))
);

// The IANA zone "Australia/Boing_Boing" does not exist
// (maybe not *yet*), so it produces the special unknown
// timezone in order for this operation to be infallible:
assert_eq!(parser.parse("Australia/Boing_Boing"), TimeZone::unknown());

Implementations

impl IanaParser

pub fn new() -> IanaParserBorrowed<'static>

Creates a new IanaParser using compiled data.

See IanaParser for an example.

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pub fn try_new_with_buffer_provider( provider: &(impl BufferProvider + ?Sized), ) -> Result<IanaParser, DataError>

A version of [Self :: new] that uses custom data provided by a BufferProvider.

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pub fn try_new_unstable<P>(provider: &P) -> Result<IanaParser, DataError>

where P: DataProvider<TimeZoneIanaMapV1> + ?Sized,

A version of Self::new that uses custom data provided by a DataProvider.

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⚠️ The bounds on provider may change over time, including in SemVer minor releases.

pub fn as_borrowed(&self) -> IanaParserBorrowed<'_>

Returns a borrowed version of the parser that can be queried.

This avoids a small potential indirection cost when querying the parser.

Trait Implementations

impl AsRef<IanaParser> for IanaParser

fn as_ref(&self) -> &IanaParser

Converts this type into a shared reference of the (usually inferred) input type.

impl Clone for IanaParser

fn clone(&self) -> IanaParser

Returns a copy of the value.

fn clone_from(&mut self, source: &Self)

Performs copy-assignment from source.

impl Debug for IanaParser

fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> Result<(), Error>

Formats the value using the given formatter.