Timezone translations

Mark Davis mark.davis at jtcsv.com
Tue Jun 7 02:06:48 UTC 2005


> How are things supposed to be handled if you are using en_US
> for your locale, and you are working in Sydney for a while?

I'm not quite sure what kind of scenario you are thinking of, so I'm not
sure how to answer. For example, suppose I am on a business trip in Sydney
using a program that is, accepting a calendar invitation from an American in
New York, with tzid America/New York and the date 2005-01-12T18:00:00, and
my locale is set to en_US, and my timezone is set to Austrialia/Sydney. In
many calendar programs you can see the datetime in both your timezone and
the originators. Assuming that we make no other changes*, if if the program
chose to use a format that showed the timezone abbreviation, and you have
set your locale to en_US, then you would see "January 12, 2005 10:00 EST"
for the originator's zone.

* As I said below in that message;
>Currently we require that all of the labels -- if supplied -- also be
>unique, but as I said in my message of Sunday, June 05, 2005 17:23 (my
>time), one thing I can bring up for the CLDR committee to decide is whether
...

‎Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Pizzini" <tz. at explicate.org>
To: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis at jtcsv.com>
Cc: <tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 18:24
Subject: Re: Timezone translations


> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:31:16PM -0700, Mark Davis wrote:
> > What we couldn't have is two conflicting values in the same locale, such
as:
> >
> > en_US:
> > America/New York <=> EST
> > Australia/Sydney <=> EST
> ...
> > Also understood. As I'm sure you know, we cannot assume that the user's
> > locale determines the timezone. I could have en_US as my locale, but
that
> > doesn't tell me the timezone; I might actually be working in Paris for a
> > while.
>
> How are things supposed to be handled if you are using en_US
> for your locale, and you are working in Sydney for a while?
>
> --Ken Pizzini
>
>





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