Timezones should broadcast as scalars

[oxinabox]

In julia 1.0 broadcasting defaults to iterating.

So if you do say

ZonedDateTime.([now(), now(), now()], tz"UTC")

you get the error

MethodError: no method matching length(::FixedTimeZone)

The workaround is
ZonedDateTime.([now(), now(), now()], Ref(tz"UTC"))

Which works fine.

But since we take broadcasting seriously we should be able to set the broadcaststyle of an AbstractTimeZone to be scalar-like.
Then the original example will work

[iamed2]

Fixed in Julia 1.1: JuliaLang/julia#30159

[oxinabox]

Is there a backport of it anywhere?
Maybe in Compat?

[iamed2]

I don't believe so