Support for 2016.b about tzdata

[lau]

It supports 2016b already. It should download automatically. If you deploy it on a server or device without internet access you can put a 2016b file on to your server manually.

Do you deploy on a server without internet access?

[olgeni]

I have a couple of servers w/o internet access. Should I just drop the IANA files somewhere, or do I build and ets file locally and then copy it?

[lau]

If you start your project (that has tzdata as a dependency) locally with iex -S mixand have internet, it will download the newest version and generate a .ets file in the deps/tzdata/priv/releases dir: 2016b.ets

You can copy this file to your servers. E.g. to "/etc/elixir_tzdata_data/releases/2016b.ets"
Then look at the readme: the section called "Data directory and releases".
You put this config in your app: config :tzdata, :data_dir, "/etc/elixir_tzdata_data"

If you have an idea for improving the documentation and/or readme to make this more clear, please make a pull request.

[lau]

I just edited my answer slightly.

[olgeni]

Got it - we now ship updates with Ansible to hosts w/o internet access. Thanks! :)