Tag: delphi

TZDB 1.8.2018c available

Just a short announcement — after quite a few years (4 to be exact) of inactivity, Michael Taylor has graciously evicted some bugs from the TZDB code base and also upgraded the IANA database to 2018c version (released…

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TZDB 1.8.2014b

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A new version of TZDB has been release (1.8.2014b). This version fixes a few issues around the Windows TZ aliases provided by CLDR project. Obviously the database has been updated to the most recent version (2014b).   The biggest…

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TZDB 1.8 — 13 November 2012 Database (2012j)

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A new version of TZDB has been release (1.8.121113). This version adds some very small changes. The biggest update is the bundled database version. Grab the latest version here, and view the latest changes here.   TZDB is an open…

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Delphi anonymous methods are …

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… too fat. Surely writing code like this gets frustrating very fast. I want my lambdas!! In other news, there is a working version of Collections 2.0 in the SVN. Most of the changes were sitting on my…

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Get over the FreeAndNil thing already!

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‘Nuff Said!

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TZDB 1.7 with 27 June Database

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After a few months of inactivity I give you the latest update to TZDB featuring the last published TZ database. This realease also fixes a bug in the importer that could not properly read only hour based offsets…

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Variant Invoke and RTTI

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I was “spring cleaning” my temporary project directory on my hard drive today and I found a half-finished implementation of a dynamic dispatch for objects based on new RTTI (Delphi 2010+). I spent some time and fixed the…

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TZDB 1.7 database 14 March

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I have finally managed to get some free time on my hands and released the latest update to TZDB containing the latest DB (from 14 March). As usual, no code changes, just data updates. For those unaware: TZDB…

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Collections 1.1 is out

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I’m proud to present version 1.1 of Collections package. The major highlights of this release are: TLinkedDictionary<TKey, TValue>, same as the standard dictionary but with predictable insertion order. TLinkedStack<T>, same as standard set but with some predictability in…

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TZDB 1.7 with latest DB update available.

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The good people at “the tz database” project released their first update for this year (2011a).  I have updated TZDB to include the newest update. No code changes in this release (it is the same 1.7 code base),…

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