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[Doug Royer]

Alex LIVINGSTON wrote:
> 
> At 18:31 -0800 2000-02-03, Paul Eggert wrote:
> >   From: Doug Royer [SMTP:doug at home.royer.com]
> >   Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 6:47 PM
> [snip]
> >   IANA as part of the IETF is looking into administrating the names
> >   of world wide time zones.
> 
> What are IANA and the IETF?

	see:

	www.iana.org
	www.ietf.org

In brief:

	The IETF is the Internet Engineering Task Force. They
	are the standards body that does, TCP, UDP, DHCP, FTP,
	EMail, HTTP,  ..... There are about 2000 standards,
	proposed standards, and interface definitions.

	And IANA is the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
	They control that port 25 is email, 79 finger, ...
	They also control the tag names for MIME, and other
	internet related interoperability protocols.


> [snip]
> >          1) Port the government database and 'zic' (Zone Information
> >             Compiler) to other OSes and have it also provide the
> >             data in VTIMEZONE format. Most UNIXes use the government
> >             database format and the zic compiler (man zic).
> 
> Which other OSes? What is the VTIMEZONE format?

Part of a proposed standard for interoperable calendars.

	http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt
	http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2446.txt
	http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2447.txt

	and:

	http://www.ietf.org/ids.by.wg/calsch.html
	

	
> >On 1998-07-16 Antoine Leca <Antoine.Leca at renault.fr> wrote that he was
> >implementing (1); you might ask him how far he got.
> 
> To which OSes was Antoine porting them and was he also providing the data
> in VTIMEZONE format?
> 
> Alex
> 
> _______________
> Alex LIVINGSTON
> IT, Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), Sydney
> Fax: +61 2 9931-9349 / Phone: +61 2 9931-9264 / Time: UTC + 10 or 11 h.
> 
> It's the 2000th year, 200th decade, 20th century, and 2nd millennium -
> the last year of the last decade of the last century of the millennium.
> (But it's no longer 1999, the 1990s, the 1900s, or the 1000s.)
> 
> Years since epoch (1-1-1 at 00:00:00) at midday today (Feb. 4): 1999.09238382
> 
> Provisional iweaq date: 2000-1g3 (Year-QuarterWeekDay) - day before
> mid-quarter day, close to northern "rise of spring" (southern "rise of
> fall"?)
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