autarch/DateTime-TimeZone — pull request #3 by karenetheridge (2014-10-22 22:58:50+00:00)
Title: on unix systems, look for /etc/timezone first before /etc/localtime

On ubuntu systems (Etch and later), /etc/localtime is a copy of
/usr/share/zoneinfo/$zonefile, which means DateTime::TimeZone::Local::Unix
spends a lot of time looking for the file that matches it, and it takes a LONG
time (especially when done many times for a single page load!); whereas
/etc/timezone also exists, and this is a simple file that contains the name of
the timezone, so checking for this file first would be much faster.