IANA time zone registration - proposal
Mark Davis
mark.davis at jtcsv.com
Mon Feb 7 17:11:27 UTC 2005
My apologies on this. I hadn't had time to respond when the original posting
was made, and I mis-remembered the document.
I still do have some concerns that the tzids will drift out of sync; and
also how the stability of tzids will be handled. The stability issue is
this. We've been advised to use zone.tab as the collection of valid names,
with others being aliases. We do that, with the addition of the
GMT{+/-number} items. The database is good about putting in links when one
of those values changes, so that any old name remains as an alias. However,
where we are working with a system of intercommunicating components, that
may be released at different times, when component A uses a new name, it
won't be able to that tzid to communicated with a component B that was built
with the old name. So what we are doing for localization is that we are
fixing the zone names as of a particular point, and any new names we will
just treat as aliases, as in the attached list. That way once an identifier
is introduced in zone.tab (after our start date), it stays stable from then
on.
How are you approaching stability of tzids with iCalendar? Or is that not an
issue in that domain?
Afghanistan (AF)
tzid: Asia/Kabul
Aland Islands (AX)
tzid: Europe/Mariehamn
Albania (AL)
tzid: Europe/Tirane
Algeria (DZ)
tzid: Africa/Algiers
American Samoa (AS)
tzid: Pacific/Pago_Pago
alias: Pacific/Samoa
alias: US/Samoa
Andorra (AD)
tzid: Europe/Andorra
Angola (AO)
tzid: Africa/Luanda
Anguilla (AI)
tzid: America/Anguilla
Antarctica (AQ)
tzid: Antarctica/Casey
tzid: Antarctica/Davis
tzid: Antarctica/DumontDUrville
tzid: Antarctica/Mawson
tzid: Antarctica/McMurdo
tzid: Antarctica/Palmer
tzid: Antarctica/Rothera
tzid: Antarctica/South_Pole
tzid: Antarctica/Syowa
tzid: Antarctica/Vostok
Antigua and Barbuda (AG)
tzid: America/Antigua
Argentina (AR)
tzid: America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia
tzid: America/Argentina/La_Rioja
tzid: America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos
tzid: America/Argentina/San_Juan
tzid: America/Argentina/Tucuman
tzid: America/Argentina/Ushuaia
tzid: America/Buenos_Aires
alias: America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
tzid: America/Catamarca
alias: America/Argentina/Catamarca
tzid: America/Cordoba
alias: America/Argentina/Cordoba
alias: America/Rosario
tzid: America/Jujuy
alias: America/Argentina/Jujuy
tzid: America/Mendoza
alias: America/Argentina/Mendoza
Armenia (AM)
tzid: Asia/Yerevan
Aruba (AW)
tzid: America/Aruba
Australia (AU)
tzid: Australia/Adelaide
alias: Australia/South
tzid: Australia/Brisbane
alias: Australia/Queensland
tzid: Australia/Broken_Hill
alias: Australia/Yancowinna
tzid: Australia/Darwin
alias: Australia/North
tzid: Australia/Hobart
alias: Australia/Tasmania
tzid: Australia/Lindeman
tzid: Australia/Lord_Howe
alias: Australia/LHI
tzid: Australia/Melbourne
alias: Australia/Victoria
tzid: Australia/Perth
alias: Australia/West
tzid: Australia/Sydney
alias: Australia/ACT
alias: Australia/Canberra
alias: Australia/NSW
Austria (AT)
tzid: Europe/Vienna
Azerbaijan (AZ)
tzid: Asia/Baku
Bahamas (BS)
tzid: America/Nassau
Bahrain (BH)
tzid: Asia/Bahrain
Bangladesh (BD)
tzid: Asia/Dhaka
alias: Asia/Dacca
Barbados (BB)
tzid: America/Barbados
Belarus (BY)
tzid: Europe/Minsk
Belgium (BE)
tzid: Europe/Brussels
Belize (BZ)
tzid: America/Belize
Benin (BJ)
tzid: Africa/Porto-Novo
Bermuda (BM)
tzid: Atlantic/Bermuda
Bhutan (BT)
tzid: Asia/Thimphu
alias: Asia/Thimbu
Bolivia (BO)
tzid: America/La_Paz
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BA)
tzid: Europe/Sarajevo
Botswana (BW)
tzid: Africa/Gaborone
Brazil (BR)
tzid: America/Araguaina
tzid: America/Bahia
tzid: America/Belem
tzid: America/Boa_Vista
tzid: America/Campo_Grande
tzid: America/Cuiaba
tzid: America/Eirunepe
tzid: America/Fortaleza
tzid: America/Maceio
tzid: America/Manaus
alias: Brazil/West
tzid: America/Noronha
alias: Brazil/DeNoronha
tzid: America/Porto_Velho
tzid: America/Recife
tzid: America/Rio_Branco
alias: America/Porto_Acre
alias: Brazil/Acre
tzid: America/Sao_Paulo
alias: Brazil/East
British Indian Ocean Territory (IO)
tzid: Indian/Chagos
British Virgin Islands (VG)
tzid: America/Tortola
Brunei (BN)
tzid: Asia/Brunei
Bulgaria (BG)
tzid: Europe/Sofia
Burkina Faso (BF)
tzid: Africa/Ouagadougou
Burundi (BI)
tzid: Africa/Bujumbura
Cambodia (KH)
tzid: Asia/Phnom_Penh
Cameroon (CM)
tzid: Africa/Douala
Canada (CA)
tzid: America/Cambridge_Bay
tzid: America/Dawson
tzid: America/Dawson_Creek
tzid: America/Edmonton
alias: Canada/Mountain
tzid: America/Glace_Bay
tzid: America/Goose_Bay
tzid: America/Halifax
alias: Canada/Atlantic
alias: SystemV/AST4ADT
tzid: America/Inuvik
tzid: America/Iqaluit
tzid: America/Montreal
tzid: America/Nipigon
tzid: America/Pangnirtung
tzid: America/Rainy_River
tzid: America/Rankin_Inlet
tzid: America/Regina
alias: Canada/East-Saskatchewan
alias: Canada/Saskatchewan
alias: SystemV/CST6
tzid: America/St_Johns
alias: Canada/Newfoundland
tzid: America/Swift_Current
tzid: America/Thunder_Bay
tzid: America/Toronto
alias: Canada/Eastern
tzid: America/Vancouver
alias: Canada/Pacific
tzid: America/Whitehorse
alias: Canada/Yukon
tzid: America/Winnipeg
alias: Canada/Central
tzid: America/Yellowknife
Cape Verde (CV)
tzid: Atlantic/Cape_Verde
Cayman Islands (KY)
tzid: America/Cayman
Central African Republic (CF)
tzid: Africa/Bangui
Chad (TD)
tzid: Africa/Ndjamena
Chile (CL)
tzid: America/Santiago
alias: Chile/Continental
tzid: Pacific/Easter
alias: Chile/EasterIsland
China (CN)
tzid: Asia/Chongqing
alias: Asia/Chungking
tzid: Asia/Harbin
tzid: Asia/Kashgar
tzid: Asia/Shanghai
alias: PRC
tzid: Asia/Urumqi
Christmas Island (CX)
tzid: Indian/Christmas
Cocos (Keeling) Islands (CC)
tzid: Indian/Cocos
Colombia (CO)
tzid: America/Bogota
Comoros (KM)
tzid: Indian/Comoro
Congo (CG)
tzid: Africa/Brazzaville
Cook Islands (CK)
tzid: Pacific/Rarotonga
Costa Rica (CR)
tzid: America/Costa_Rica
Côte d’Ivoire (CI)
tzid: Africa/Abidjan
Croatia (HR)
tzid: Europe/Zagreb
Cuba (CU)
tzid: America/Havana
alias: Cuba
Cyprus (CY)
tzid: Asia/Nicosia
alias: Europe/Nicosia
Czech Republic (CZ)
tzid: Europe/Prague
Czechoslovakia (CS)
tzid: Europe/Belgrade
Democratic Republic of the Congo (CD)
tzid: Africa/Kinshasa
tzid: Africa/Lubumbashi
Denmark (DK)
tzid: Europe/Copenhagen
Djibouti (DJ)
tzid: Africa/Djibouti
Dominica (DM)
tzid: America/Dominica
Dominican Republic (DO)
tzid: America/Santo_Domingo
Ecuador (EC)
tzid: America/Guayaquil
tzid: Pacific/Galapagos
Egypt (EG)
tzid: Africa/Cairo
alias: Egypt
El Salvador (SV)
tzid: America/El_Salvador
Equatorial Guinea (GQ)
tzid: Africa/Malabo
Eritrea (ER)
tzid: Africa/Asmera
Estonia (EE)
tzid: Europe/Tallinn
Ethiopia (ET)
tzid: Africa/Addis_Ababa
Falkland Islands (FK)
tzid: Atlantic/Stanley
Faroe Islands (FO)
tzid: Atlantic/Faeroe
Fiji (FJ)
tzid: Pacific/Fiji
Finland (FI)
tzid: Europe/Helsinki
France (FR)
tzid: Europe/Paris
French Guiana (GF)
tzid: America/Cayenne
French Polynesia (PF)
tzid: Pacific/Gambier
alias: SystemV/YST9
tzid: Pacific/Marquesas
tzid: Pacific/Tahiti
French Southern Territories (TF)
tzid: Indian/Kerguelen
Gabon (GA)
tzid: Africa/Libreville
Gambia (GM)
tzid: Africa/Banjul
Georgia (GE)
tzid: Asia/Tbilisi
Germany (DE)
tzid: Europe/Berlin
Ghana (GH)
tzid: Africa/Accra
Gibraltar (GI)
tzid: Europe/Gibraltar
Greece (GR)
tzid: Europe/Athens
Greenland (GL)
tzid: America/Danmarkshavn
tzid: America/Godthab
tzid: America/Scoresbysund
tzid: America/Thule
Grenada (GD)
tzid: America/Grenada
Guadeloupe (GP)
tzid: America/Guadeloupe
Guam (GU)
tzid: Pacific/Guam
Guatemala (GT)
tzid: America/Guatemala
Guinea (GN)
tzid: Africa/Conakry
Guinea-Bissau (GW)
tzid: Africa/Bissau
Guyana (GY)
tzid: America/Guyana
Haiti (HT)
tzid: America/Port-au-Prince
Honduras (HN)
tzid: America/Tegucigalpa
Hong Kong S.A.R., China (HK)
tzid: Asia/Hong_Kong
alias: Hongkong
Hungary (HU)
tzid: Europe/Budapest
Iceland (IS)
tzid: Atlantic/Reykjavik
alias: Iceland
India (IN)
tzid: Asia/Calcutta
Indonesia (ID)
tzid: Asia/Jakarta
tzid: Asia/Jayapura
tzid: Asia/Makassar
alias: Asia/Ujung_Pandang
tzid: Asia/Pontianak
Iran (IR)
tzid: Asia/Tehran
alias: Iran
Iraq (IQ)
tzid: Asia/Baghdad
Ireland (IE)
tzid: Europe/Dublin
alias: Eire
Israel (IL)
tzid: Asia/Jerusalem
alias: Asia/Tel_Aviv
alias: Israel
Italy (IT)
tzid: Europe/Rome
Jamaica (JM)
tzid: America/Jamaica
alias: Jamaica
Japan (JP)
tzid: Asia/Tokyo
alias: Japan
Jordan (JO)
tzid: Asia/Amman
Kazakhstan (KZ)
tzid: Asia/Almaty
tzid: Asia/Aqtau
tzid: Asia/Aqtobe
tzid: Asia/Oral
tzid: Asia/Qyzylorda
Kenya (KE)
tzid: Africa/Nairobi
Kiribati (KI)
tzid: Pacific/Enderbury
tzid: Pacific/Kiritimati
tzid: Pacific/Tarawa
Kuwait (KW)
tzid: Asia/Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan (KG)
tzid: Asia/Bishkek
Laos (LA)
tzid: Asia/Vientiane
Latvia (LV)
tzid: Europe/Riga
Lebanon (LB)
tzid: Asia/Beirut
Lesotho (LS)
tzid: Africa/Maseru
Liberia (LR)
tzid: Africa/Monrovia
Libya (LY)
tzid: Africa/Tripoli
alias: Libya
Liechtenstein (LI)
tzid: Europe/Vaduz
Lithuania (LT)
tzid: Europe/Vilnius
Luxembourg (LU)
tzid: Europe/Luxembourg
Macao S.A.R., China (MO)
tzid: Asia/Macau
alias: Asia/Macao
Macedonia (MK)
tzid: Europe/Skopje
Madagascar (MG)
tzid: Indian/Antananarivo
Malawi (MW)
tzid: Africa/Blantyre
Malaysia (MY)
tzid: Asia/Kuala_Lumpur
tzid: Asia/Kuching
Maldives (MV)
tzid: Indian/Maldives
Mali (ML)
tzid: Africa/Bamako
tzid: Africa/Timbuktu
Malta (MT)
tzid: Europe/Malta
Marshall Islands (MH)
tzid: Pacific/Kwajalein
alias: Kwajalein
tzid: Pacific/Majuro
Martinique (MQ)
tzid: America/Martinique
Mauritania (MR)
tzid: Africa/Nouakchott
Mauritius (MU)
tzid: Indian/Mauritius
Mayotte (YT)
tzid: Indian/Mayotte
Mexico (MX)
tzid: America/Cancun
tzid: America/Chihuahua
tzid: America/Hermosillo
tzid: America/Mazatlan
alias: Mexico/BajaSur
tzid: America/Merida
tzid: America/Mexico_City
alias: Mexico/General
tzid: America/Monterrey
tzid: America/Tijuana
alias: America/Ensenada
alias: Mexico/BajaNorte
Micronesia (FM)
tzid: Pacific/Kosrae
tzid: Pacific/Ponape
tzid: Pacific/Truk
tzid: Pacific/Yap
Moldova (MD)
tzid: Europe/Chisinau
alias: Europe/Tiraspol
Monaco (MC)
tzid: Europe/Monaco
Mongolia (MN)
tzid: Asia/Choibalsan
tzid: Asia/Hovd
tzid: Asia/Ulaanbaatar
alias: Asia/Ulan_Bator
Montserrat (MS)
tzid: America/Montserrat
Morocco (MA)
tzid: Africa/Casablanca
Mozambique (MZ)
tzid: Africa/Maputo
Myanmar (MM)
tzid: Asia/Rangoon
Namibia (NA)
tzid: Africa/Windhoek
Nauru (NR)
tzid: Pacific/Nauru
Nepal (NP)
tzid: Asia/Katmandu
Netherlands (NL)
tzid: Europe/Amsterdam
Netherlands Antilles (AN)
tzid: America/Curacao
New Caledonia (NC)
tzid: Pacific/Noumea
New Zealand (NZ)
tzid: Pacific/Auckland
alias: NZ
tzid: Pacific/Chatham
alias: NZ-CHAT
Nicaragua (NI)
tzid: America/Managua
Niger (NE)
tzid: Africa/Niamey
Nigeria (NG)
tzid: Africa/Lagos
Niue (NU)
tzid: Pacific/Niue
Norfolk Island (NF)
tzid: Pacific/Norfolk
North Korea (KP)
tzid: Asia/Pyongyang
Northern Mariana Islands (MP)
tzid: Pacific/Saipan
Norway (NO)
tzid: Europe/Oslo
Oman (OM)
tzid: Asia/Muscat
Pakistan (PK)
tzid: Asia/Karachi
Palau (PW)
tzid: Pacific/Palau
Palestinian Territory (PS)
tzid: Asia/Gaza
Panama (PA)
tzid: America/Panama
Papua New Guinea (PG)
tzid: Pacific/Port_Moresby
Paraguay (PY)
tzid: America/Asuncion
Peru (PE)
tzid: America/Lima
Philippines (PH)
tzid: Asia/Manila
Pitcairn (PN)
tzid: Pacific/Pitcairn
alias: SystemV/PST8
Poland (PL)
tzid: Europe/Warsaw
alias: Poland
Portugal (PT)
tzid: Atlantic/Azores
tzid: Atlantic/Madeira
tzid: Europe/Lisbon
alias: Portugal
Puerto Rico (PR)
tzid: America/Puerto_Rico
alias: SystemV/AST4
Qatar (QA)
tzid: Asia/Qatar
Réunion (RE)
tzid: Indian/Reunion
Romania (RO)
tzid: Europe/Bucharest
Russia (RU)
tzid: Asia/Anadyr
tzid: Asia/Irkutsk
tzid: Asia/Kamchatka
tzid: Asia/Krasnoyarsk
tzid: Asia/Magadan
tzid: Asia/Novosibirsk
tzid: Asia/Omsk
tzid: Asia/Sakhalin
tzid: Asia/Vladivostok
tzid: Asia/Yakutsk
tzid: Asia/Yekaterinburg
tzid: Europe/Kaliningrad
tzid: Europe/Moscow
alias: W-SU
tzid: Europe/Samara
Rwanda (RW)
tzid: Africa/Kigali
Saint Helena (SH)
tzid: Atlantic/St_Helena
Saint Kitts and Nevis (KN)
tzid: America/St_Kitts
Saint Lucia (LC)
tzid: America/St_Lucia
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (PM)
tzid: America/Miquelon
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (VC)
tzid: America/St_Vincent
Samoa (WS)
tzid: Pacific/Apia
San Marino (SM)
tzid: Europe/San_Marino
Sao Tome and Principe (ST)
tzid: Africa/Sao_Tome
Saudi Arabia (SA)
tzid: Asia/Riyadh
Senegal (SN)
tzid: Africa/Dakar
Seychelles (SC)
tzid: Indian/Mahe
Sierra Leone (SL)
tzid: Africa/Freetown
Singapore (SG)
tzid: Asia/Singapore
alias: Singapore
Slovakia (SK)
tzid: Europe/Bratislava
Slovenia (SI)
tzid: Europe/Ljubljana
Solomon Islands (SB)
tzid: Pacific/Guadalcanal
Somalia (SO)
tzid: Africa/Mogadishu
South Africa (ZA)
tzid: Africa/Johannesburg
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (GS)
tzid: Atlantic/South_Georgia
South Korea (KR)
tzid: Asia/Seoul
alias: ROK
Spain (ES)
tzid: Africa/Ceuta
tzid: Atlantic/Canary
tzid: Europe/Madrid
Sri Lanka (LK)
tzid: Asia/Colombo
Sudan (SD)
tzid: Africa/Khartoum
Suriname (SR)
tzid: America/Paramaribo
Svalbard and Jan Mayen (SJ)
tzid: Arctic/Longyearbyen
tzid: Atlantic/Jan_Mayen
Swaziland (SZ)
tzid: Africa/Mbabane
Sweden (SE)
tzid: Europe/Stockholm
Switzerland (CH)
tzid: Europe/Zurich
Syria (SY)
tzid: Asia/Damascus
Taiwan (TW)
tzid: Asia/Taipei
alias: ROC
Tajikistan (TJ)
tzid: Asia/Dushanbe
Tanzania (TZ)
tzid: Africa/Dar_es_Salaam
Thailand (TH)
tzid: Asia/Bangkok
Timor-Leste (TL)
tzid: Asia/Dili
Togo (TG)
tzid: Africa/Lome
Tokelau (TK)
tzid: Pacific/Fakaofo
Tonga (TO)
tzid: Pacific/Tongatapu
Trinidad and Tobago (TT)
tzid: America/Port_of_Spain
Tunisia (TN)
tzid: Africa/Tunis
Turkey (TR)
tzid: Europe/Istanbul
alias: Asia/Istanbul
alias: Turkey
Turkmenistan (TM)
tzid: Asia/Ashgabat
alias: Asia/Ashkhabad
Turks and Caicos Islands (TC)
tzid: America/Grand_Turk
Tuvalu (TV)
tzid: Pacific/Funafuti
U.S. Virgin Islands (VI)
tzid: America/St_Thomas
alias: America/Virgin
Uganda (UG)
tzid: Africa/Kampala
Ukraine (UA)
tzid: Europe/Kiev
tzid: Europe/Simferopol
tzid: Europe/Uzhgorod
tzid: Europe/Zaporozhye
United Arab Emirates (AE)
tzid: Asia/Dubai
United Kingdom (GB)
tzid: Europe/Belfast
tzid: Europe/London
alias: GB
alias: GB-Eire
United States (US)
tzid: America/Adak
alias: America/Atka
alias: US/Aleutian
tzid: America/Anchorage
alias: SystemV/YST9YDT
alias: US/Alaska
tzid: America/Boise
tzid: America/Chicago
alias: CST6CDT
alias: SystemV/CST6CDT
alias: US/Central
tzid: America/Denver
alias: MST7MDT
alias: Navajo
alias: SystemV/MST7MDT
alias: US/Mountain
tzid: America/Detroit
alias: US/Michigan
tzid: America/Indiana/Knox
alias: America/Knox_IN
alias: US/Indiana-Starke
tzid: America/Indiana/Marengo
tzid: America/Indiana/Vevay
tzid: America/Indianapolis
alias: America/Fort_Wayne
alias: America/Indiana/Indianapolis
alias: EST
alias: SystemV/EST5
alias: US/East-Indiana
tzid: America/Juneau
tzid: America/Kentucky/Monticello
tzid: America/Los_Angeles
alias: PST8PDT
alias: SystemV/PST8PDT
alias: US/Pacific
alias: US/Pacific-New
tzid: America/Louisville
alias: America/Kentucky/Louisville
tzid: America/Menominee
tzid: America/New_York
alias: EST5EDT
alias: SystemV/EST5EDT
alias: US/Eastern
tzid: America/Nome
tzid: America/North_Dakota/Center
tzid: America/Phoenix
alias: MST
alias: SystemV/MST7
alias: US/Arizona
tzid: America/Shiprock
tzid: America/Yakutat
tzid: Pacific/Honolulu
alias: HST
alias: SystemV/HST10
alias: US/Hawaii
United States Minor Outlying Islands (UM)
tzid: Pacific/Johnston
tzid: Pacific/Midway
tzid: Pacific/Wake
Uruguay (UY)
tzid: America/Montevideo
Uzbekistan (UZ)
tzid: Asia/Samarkand
tzid: Asia/Tashkent
Vanuatu (VU)
tzid: Pacific/Efate
Vatican (VA)
tzid: Europe/Vatican
Venezuela (VE)
tzid: America/Caracas
Vietnam (VN)
tzid: Asia/Saigon
Wallis and Futuna (WF)
tzid: Pacific/Wallis
Western Sahara (EH)
tzid: Africa/El_Aaiun
World (001)
tzid: Etc/GMT
alias: Etc/GMT-0
alias: Etc/GMT+0
alias: Etc/GMT0
alias: Etc/Greenwich
alias: Etc/UCT
alias: Etc/Universal
alias: Etc/UTC
alias: Etc/Zulu
alias: GMT
alias: GMT-0
alias: GMT+0
alias: GMT0
alias: Greenwich
alias: UCT
alias: Universal
alias: UTC
alias: Zulu
tzid: Etc/GMT-1
tzid: Etc/GMT-2
tzid: Etc/GMT-3
tzid: Etc/GMT-4
tzid: Etc/GMT-5
tzid: Etc/GMT-6
tzid: Etc/GMT-7
tzid: Etc/GMT-8
tzid: Etc/GMT-9
tzid: Etc/GMT-10
tzid: Etc/GMT-11
tzid: Etc/GMT-12
tzid: Etc/GMT-13
tzid: Etc/GMT-14
tzid: Etc/GMT+1
tzid: Etc/GMT+2
tzid: Etc/GMT+3
tzid: Etc/GMT+4
tzid: Etc/GMT+5
tzid: Etc/GMT+6
tzid: Etc/GMT+7
tzid: Etc/GMT+8
tzid: Etc/GMT+9
tzid: Etc/GMT+10
tzid: Etc/GMT+11
tzid: Etc/GMT+12
Yemen (YE)
tzid: Asia/Aden
Zambia (ZM)
tzid: Africa/Lusaka
Zimbabwe (ZW)
tzid: Africa/Harare
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Royer" <Doug at Royer.com>
To: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis at jtcsv.com>
Cc: "Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI)" <olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov>; "Tz
(tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov)" <tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 10:30
Subject: Re: IANA time zone registration - proposal
Thank you.
This is not a proposal for an authority.
This is a proposal for an iCalendar repository that uses the IETF
iCalendar format used by an increasing number of calendaring applications.
Synching the data can be as simple as a few line cron (batch)
job that runs at some interval. A tool already exists that converts
from the current TZ format and stores the data in iCalendar format. This
just keeps the now few hundred of calendar applications from
having to compile in static versions. Now if they get an appointment
in the FOO/FEE time zone, they can query a source and find it in a
way that is compatible to the IETF iCalendar format. Currently
all vendors have had to make static snapshots, compile it into
their code and hope.
Mark Davis wrote:
> I am quite leery about this project, having seen a number of other cases
> like this. The IANA charset registry, for example, is a real muddle; for
> example, some of the registered names are not compliant to the very
> specification they are supposed to be registered under, and there is
nowhere
> near enough information in the registry to verify that the contents of a
> charset matches what is supposed to be registered.
>
> I'm not sure that people here realize the implications of this proposal.
It
> means either that all the timezone database identifier updates have to
> funnel through the IANA process, or that the data will get out of sync,
and
> people won't know which is authoritative; the registry or the database.
>
> While I do believe that it would be useful to have a more formal
> specification to answer certain issues that implementers need to depend
on,
> at this point I would much rather see a single source. (And the proposed
> specification does not really add any information to what is already
> available.)
>
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI)" <olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov>
> To: "Tz (tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov)" <tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov>
> Cc: <doug at royer.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 12:22
> Subject: FW: IANA time zone registration - proposal
>
>
>
>>Doug Royer is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies
>>appropriately.
>>
>>--ado
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Doug Royer [mailto:Doug at Royer.com]
>>Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 2:12 PM
>>To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
>>Subject: IANA time zone registration - proposal
>>
>>
>>[This was sent to some IETF mailing lists by me and someone suggested I
>
> send
>
>>it to this list also]
>>
>>This is REV -00 of the proposal - comments welcome. Data in in it can
>
> easily
>
>>updated. (Like the TZ names updated to latest copy of data)
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>A couple of years ago there was talk on the CALSCH mailing list to have an
>>IANA time zone registration process. I have submitted a proposal for that
>>registry to the IETF.
>>
>>A copy can be found at:
>>
>> http://inet-consulting.com/draft-royer-timezone-registry-00.txt
>>
>>And an HTML version:
>>
>> http://inet-consulting.com/draft-royer-timezone-registry-00.html
>>
>>
>>I am adding the POLYGON property targeted for the -01 version that has an
>>ADD/DELETE parameter to allow for the optional inclusion of
>>latitude/longitude geographic areas to be included that include (add) and
>>exclude (delete) areas from the time zone geographic region (again from
>
> the
>
>>CALSCH mailing list discussions).
>>
>>
>>--
>>
>>Doug Royer | http://INET-Consulting.com
>>-------------------------------|-----------------------------
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>> | Cell: (208)520-4044
>>
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>>
>>
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