There are many sources for polygons for country boundaries. It would suffice to have the polygons within those countries that have multiple timezones.<br><br>Mark<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]</b> <<a href="mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov">olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"></font></div><div><span class="q"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Brak [mailto:<a href="mailto:Brak@neo.rr.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<a href="mailto:tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov</a><br></font></span></div><div><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>Subject:</b> Re: FW: Time Zone Area
Polygons<br></font><br></div></div><div><span class="q">
<div></div>Paul Eggert wrote:
<blockquote cite="http://mid87d5crx0ke.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu" type="cite"><pre>"Olson, Arthur David \(NIH/NCI\) [E]" <a href="mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov></a> writes:<br><br> </pre>
<blockquote type="cite"><pre>I have read at several websites about there being time zone area polygon<br>lists. For example a file called New_Yok.geo.<br> </pre></blockquote><pre>That'd be news to me. Good news. Can you give URLs for this?
<br><br>I just now Googled for New_York.geo, but all I found was Doug Royer's<br>expired draft proposal for a registry for such data<br><a href="http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-royer-timezone-registry/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-royer-timezone-registry/></a>. As<br>far as I know, this has not been implemented. I have seen technical<br>recommendations for a time zone service that might contain the data
<br>you're talking about<br><a href="http://www.calconnect.org/publications/timezoneregistryandservicerecommendationsv1.0.pdf" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><http://www.calconnect.org/publications/timezoneregistryandservicerecommendationsv1.0.pdf>
</a>,<br>once it gets implemented.<br><br><br> </pre></blockquote></span></div><div>The item google gave you is the site that I heard about
it.</div><div><span class="q"><br><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><pre>So can you please direct me to where I can download the timezone area<br>polygons.<br> </pre></blockquote><pre>Some timezone area data is mentioned under "Time zone boundaries" in
<br><a href="http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm></a>. You can look there, but I<br>suspect it won't be exactly what you want.
<br><br> </pre></blockquote></span></div><div>The only one that looks to have potential was the link to
<a href="http://www.manifold.net/download/freemaps.html" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.manifold.net/download/freemaps.html</a><br>On
that site they have a link to a TZ boundary database <a href="ftp://69.17.46.170/downloads/free_world/WorldTZ.zip" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ftp://69.17.46.170/downloads/free_world/WorldTZ.zip
</a><br>But
that link keeps timing out. i did a search for the file itself under google, and
the two "mirrors" for it are down as well.<br><br>Do you happen to know how to
get this file?</div><div><span class="q"><br><br>Thanks in
advance.<br><br>B"H<br>John<br><br><br><br><br><br></span></div><div></div>
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