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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