tz SOAP service?

[Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]]

Emmanuel Eriksson is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies
appropriately.

				--ado 

-----Original Message-----
From: e2 [mailto:e2 at sympatico.ca]
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:22 AM
To: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]
Subject: tz SOAP service?

I was going to send the following email to your tz list but thought I'd
better send it just to you first.  What do you think?

Emmanuel Eriksson

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I've looked and cannot find a web service (e.g. SOAP) for providing
local time conversion using Arthur Olsen's up-to-date timezone/daylight
savings data.

I gather that most people subscribed to this list are integrating tz
into unix/linux distributions but I am wondering if there is also
interest in having access to a web service.

How many of you would be interested in such a thing?  I'm toying with
the idea of developing it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]
[mailto:olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov]
Sent: February 23, 2006 11:28 AM
To: e2 at sympatico.ca
Subject: RE: tz SOAP service?

You might want to take a look at...
	http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm
...to see what's already available on the Web.

				--ado

-----Original Message-----
From: e2 [mailto:e2 at sympatico.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:35 AM
To: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]
Subject: RE: tz SOAP service?

Thanks.  Yes, I already checked that list.  The closest I found was
worldtimeserver.com who have a database subscription service (I don't
know if they use your data or not).  They don't offer a web service -
just periodic updates to the data files that are mailed to subscribers.
I've asked them if they are planning to do a web service and am waiting
for a reply.

I'm contemplating writing one myself (I hope I'm not getting into
something that I can't handle!) and was interested in whether others
were interested in using it and/or contributing to the effort.

Emmanuel