[proposal] Split off updater about tzdata

[lau]

I cannot see the discussion you linked to because it requires a login.

The update behaviour is explained in the readme https://github.com/lau/tzdata#automatic-data-updates It is very easy to change the setting using the config setting config :tzdata, :autoupdate, :disabled

[lau]

For people that do not bother to read the readme of the libraries the use, I believe that auto updating is the best default. For most people including those that care to read the readmes of the libraries they use, they can choose to disable the auto updating and instead keep up with new tzdata versions every single day and make sure to update to new versions within 24 hours manually.

[cdegroot]

The problem is that most users aren’t aware that this library is in their dependency path (they use timex). It conflates two functions and the default is in many circumstances unwanted. But I can’t apparently sway the maintainer so I’ll likely fork it to a by-default non updating version.

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