diff --git a/ChangeLog.md b/ChangeLog.md
--- a/ChangeLog.md
+++ b/ChangeLog.md
@@ -1,8 +1,16 @@
 # Changelog for timezone-detect
 
-## v0.2.0.0 (2020-08-30)
+## v0.2.2.0 (2020-08-30)
 
-* Depend on `base >= 4.9` to ensure `MonadFail` and `lifIO` are included.
+* Explicitly import `MonadFail` and `fail`; hide the `fail` from `Prelude`.
+* Introduces `timeInTimeZoneToUTC`, for when the timezone name is already available.
+* Minor updates to help build with older Haskell versions.
+* Update github actions to build on said older haskells!
+* `TimeZoneName` is now an alias for `FilePath`.
+
+## v0.2.1.0 (2020-08-30)
+
+* Depend on `base >= 4.9` to ensure `MonadFail` and `liftIO` are included.
 
 ## v0.2.0.0 (2020-08-30)
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -29,5 +29,14 @@
 
 >>> localSummer <- parseTimeM True defaultTimeLocale "%Y-%-m-%-d %T" "2019-07-25 00:30:00"
 >>> utcTime <- timeAtPointToUTC "./test/tz_db/timezone21.bin" 40.7831 (-73.9712) localWinter
-2019-12-25 04:30:00 UTC
+2019-07-25 04:30:00 UTC
+```
+
+You can also opt to obtain the timezone name separately (if you wanted to isolate that as a failure scenario,)
+and, once in possession of it, use `timeInTimeZoneToUTC`:
+
+```haskell
+>>> localSummer <- parseTimeM True defaultTimeLocale "%Y-%-m-%-d %T" "2019-07-25 00:30:00"
+>>> utcTime <- timeInTimeZoneToUTC "America/New_York" localSummer
+2019-07-25 04:30:00 UTC
 ```
diff --git a/src/Data/Time/LocalTime/TimeZone/Detect.hs b/src/Data/Time/LocalTime/TimeZone/Detect.hs
--- a/src/Data/Time/LocalTime/TimeZone/Detect.hs
+++ b/src/Data/Time/LocalTime/TimeZone/Detect.hs
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 module Data.Time.LocalTime.TimeZone.Detect 
     ( lookupTimeZoneName
     , timeAtPointToUTC
+    , timeInTimeZoneToUTC
     , getTimeZoneSeriesFromOlsonFileUNIX
     , TimeZoneName
 ) where
@@ -29,12 +30,15 @@
 import Data.Time.LocalTime.TimeZone.Series
 import System.IO.Unsafe (unsafePerformIO)
 import Control.Monad.IO.Class (MonadIO(liftIO))
-
+import Control.Monad.Fail (MonadFail, fail)
+import Prelude hiding (fail)
 
--- | Alias for clarity, timezones are short strings that follow the IANA conventions
+-- | Alias for clarity, timezones are path-like strings that follow the IANA conventions
 -- documented here:
 -- <https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html>
-type TimeZoneName = String
+-- and here:
+-- <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#Names_of_time_zones>
+type TimeZoneName = FilePath
 
 -- | Gets timezone info from the standard location in UNIX systems.
 -- The name should be one of the standard tz database names, as returned
@@ -42,7 +46,7 @@
 -- See: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones>
 getTimeZoneSeriesFromOlsonFileUNIX :: TimeZoneName -> IO TimeZoneSeries
 getTimeZoneSeriesFromOlsonFileUNIX tzName =
-    getTimeZoneSeriesFromOlsonFile $ "/usr/share/zoneinfo/" <> tzName
+    getTimeZoneSeriesFromOlsonFile $ "/usr/share/zoneinfo/" ++ tzName
 
 -- | Given a timezone database, latitude and longitude, try to determine the
 -- timezone name. Follow the instructions in the C library's repository
@@ -58,7 +62,7 @@
     unsafePerformIO $ do
         zdPtr <- withCAString databaseLocation $ \dbl -> c_ZDOpenDatabase dbl
         if zdPtr == nullPtr then
-            pure $ fail (databaseLocation <> " is not a valid timezone database.")
+            pure $ fail (databaseLocation ++ " is not a valid timezone database.")
         else do
             tzName <- c_ZDHelperSimpleLookupString zdPtr
                                                    (realToFrac lat)
@@ -69,6 +73,13 @@
                 peekCAString tzName >>= (pure . return)
 
 
+-- | Given a timezone name (presumably obtained via `lookupTimeZoneName`,)
+-- and a reference time in `LocalTime`, find the UTC equivalent.
+timeInTimeZoneToUTC :: TimeZoneName -> LocalTime -> IO UTCTime
+timeInTimeZoneToUTC tzName referenceTime = do
+    tzSeries <- getTimeZoneSeriesFromOlsonFileUNIX tzName
+    return $ localTimeToUTC' tzSeries referenceTime
+
 -- | Given a timezone database, latitude, longitude and a local reference time, find the UTC Time
 -- equivalent of that reference time in the given timezone. The reference time helps determine
 -- which offset was in effect, since daylight savings, historical circumstances, political revisions
@@ -77,5 +88,4 @@
 timeAtPointToUTC :: FilePath -> Double -> Double -> LocalTime -> IO UTCTime
 timeAtPointToUTC databaseLocation lat lng referenceTime = do
     tzName <- lookupTimeZoneName databaseLocation lat lng
-    tzSeries <- liftIO $ getTimeZoneSeriesFromOlsonFileUNIX tzName
-    return $ localTimeToUTC' tzSeries referenceTime
+    timeInTimeZoneToUTC tzName referenceTime
diff --git a/test/TimezoneDetectSpec.hs b/test/TimezoneDetectSpec.hs
--- a/test/TimezoneDetectSpec.hs
+++ b/test/TimezoneDetectSpec.hs
@@ -62,3 +62,19 @@
 
             atPointWinter `shouldBe` utcWinter
             atPointSummer `shouldBe` utcSummer
+
+    describe "timeInTimeZoneToUTC" $ do
+        it "calculates a UTC instant given a timezone name" $ do
+            localWinter <- localTimeFromString "2019-12-25 00:30:00"
+            localSummer <- localTimeFromString "2019-08-25 00:30:00"
+            utcWinter <- utcFromString "2019-12-25 05:30:00"
+            utcSummer <- utcFromString "2019-08-25 04:30:00"
+            alwaysSummer  <- utcFromString "2019-08-25 06:30:00"
+
+            atTZWinter <- timeInTimeZoneToUTC "America/New_York" localWinter
+            atTZSummer <- timeInTimeZoneToUTC "America/New_York" localSummer
+            atTZNoDST  <- timeInTimeZoneToUTC "America/Tegucigalpa" localSummer
+
+            atTZWinter `shouldBe` utcWinter
+            atTZSummer `shouldBe` utcSummer
+            atTZNoDST  `shouldBe` alwaysSummer
diff --git a/timezone-detect.cabal b/timezone-detect.cabal
--- a/timezone-detect.cabal
+++ b/timezone-detect.cabal
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 --
 -- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
 --
--- hash: ecaa29fb79f73d37d1fd1e23cbb86d67f3f2f8eb18d3f054334aed03d230c054
+-- hash: 03ea7e2e9760969e8b6c4e2a5f8cb5a17b448db1b6b3d5749e18cf3f7336553a
 
 name:           timezone-detect
-version:        0.2.1.0
+version:        0.2.2.0
 synopsis:       Haskell bindings for the zone-detect C library; plus tz-aware utils.
 description:    Please see the README on GitHub at <https://github.com/lfborjas/timezone-detect#readme>
 category:       Data, Foreign, Time