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+# Copyright 2013-2021 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class RTzdb(RPackage):
+    """Time Zone Database Information.
+
+    Provides an up-to-date copy of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
+    (IANA) Time Zone Database. It is updated periodically to reflect changes
+    made by political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets, and
+    daylight saving time rules. Additionally, this package provides a C++
+    interface for working with the 'date' library. 'date' provides
+    comprehensive support for working with dates and date-times, which this
+    package exposes to make it easier for other R packages to utilize. Headers
+    are provided for calendar specific calculations, along with a limited
+    interface for time zone manipulations."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/r-lib/tzdb"
+    cran     = "tzdb"
+
+    version('0.2.0', sha256='c335905d452b400af7ed54b916b5246cb3f47ede0602911a2bcb25a1cf56d5a9')
+
+    depends_on('r@3.3:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r-cpp11@0.4.0:', type=('build', 'run'))