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Hi,

I designed a logo to contribute to Timezone. I was inspired by the description in the readme file when creating the logo. If you like it, I think I will send you a pr. Otherwise, I can design something you want.

Crystal's stdlib has had support for time zones since early this year in master and it will be included in the upcoming release Crystal 0.25.0. Maybe you have already taken a look at this? (the process is documented in crystal-lang/crystal#5324)

Most of the features this shard provides are already implemented there, even with a cleaner API (due to being directly integrated in the standard library).

There are a certainly quite a few things this shard offers that are not in the stdlib implementation. For example parsing timezone db files in text format (this is usually not really needed as the binary format is more memory and time efficient). Or integrating country codes to time zones, mostly trivial mapping.

Maybe there are other features as well, that I've missed. Please let me know!

While such features are probably not all suited for the standard library, it would certainly make sense to make them available as shards integrating with the new time zone API in the stdlib.

This could be a good time to join forces and discuss design and implementations of a new time and time zone related shard to provide enhanced features based on the stdlib API.
I'd be happy if you're willing to contribute.