Add support for Etc/UTC time zone identifier without tzdb

[femto]

refers to this #14074,

Also I took the liberty of adding a few common things to .gitignore,
I can seperate that into a distinguish PR if you want

[straight-shoota]

Please seperate unrelated changes into independent PRs. The gitignore changes are a different issue.

The time location change requires updates to the API docs. At least on the directly affected methods. Possibly elsewhere like the class documentation.

[femto]

The time location change requires updates to the API docs. At least on the directly affected methods. Possibly elsewhere like the class documentation.

what do you mean by api docs? the comment before the methods? changed

[femto]

ps: could #14174 be fixed?
it's just inconvient for make std_spec to fail on my machine :(

[straight-shoota]

ps: could #14174 be fixed? it's just inconvient for make std_spec to fail on my machine :(

It's unclear what's even going on there, so I wouldn't know how it could possible be fixed. So far nobody has been able to reproduce this issue on their machine, so unless you can dig out more information, I fear everyone else is pretty much in the blind.

[femto]

@straight-shoota changed, I'm currently reading the specification now,
so I still has few "why this" questions,
and also some "crystal internal implementation" questions,
could we setup a meeting to talk? I think that's more efficient.

[Sija]

Wrong indentation

[femto]

fixed

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On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 8:36 PM Sijawusz Pur Rahnama < ***@***.***> wrote: ***@***.**** commented on this pull request. ------------------------------ In src/time/location.cr <#14185 (comment)> : > + # `UTC` is a special identifier, empty string represents a fallback mechanism. + # `Etc/UTC` is technically a tzdb identifier which could potentially point to anything. + # But we map it to `Location::UTC` directly for convenience which allows it to work + # without a copy of the database. + UTC Wrong indentation — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#14185 (review)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAABWGTM3ZFY2HPJJ3GVTCTYNU2VBAVCNFSM6AAAAABBRCB6BOVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43YUDVNRWFEZLROVSXG5CSMV3GSZLXHMYTQMJRGA3TANRUHE> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

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