This modules basically builds a data-structure for a set of days based on bit-maps. This is built to store a collection of regional holidays for the [opening-hours] crate.
Here is how serialized data is represented:
text
start size year 1 year 2 ...
┌──────┬──────┬───────────────┬───────────────┬────
│ 8B │ 8B │ 8B * 12 = 96B │ 8B * 12 = 96B │ ...
└──────┴──────┴───────────────┴───────────────┴────
Each year is just an array of 12 u32
where the least significant bits each
represent a day.
While a bitset might not be the most efficient way to store a collection of dates for sparse data, this approached proved to be very compact when combined with a Zlib encoder. This methods allowed to store all holidays from 2000 to 2100 as described by [workalendar] in only 60kb of data.