Changed rule_for_reference to use timestamps where possible #11
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Hi,
while hunting for the DST bug, I noticed that the code was parsing strings also when timestamps were present, so I slightly changed the rule_for_reference code to use timestamps, if present. I tried executing rule_for_reference 10000 times in a row, and it shows that using timestamps is roughly 9 times faster than parsing a string with strptime.
The existing tests are now using the new functionality, and I added a new test (and a data without timestamps) to test the case where no timestamps are available.
If during the existence of this library you have already found a reason why timestamps should not be used, just discard this pull request.