Supplying names for timezones in the data files

Arthur David Olson ado
Mon Aug 5 14:58:17 UTC 1996


>    # ZONE-DESCR America New_York United_States Eastern time
> 
> Good idea, but how about a format like this instead?
> 
>    America/New_York	+404251-0740023	US	US Eastern time
> 
> where the columns are:
> 
>  * zone name in tz database
>  * latitude and longitude (in ISO 6709 format) of the zone's main location
>  * country code (in ISO 3166 2-letter format)
>  * an (English) comment describing the zone

One approach would be to, for example,

	Link America/New_York	Coords/+404251-0740023
	Link America/New_York	Descrips/US_Eastern_time

				--ado



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