Implementation of zoneinfo (Olson, tz) database in .NET c-sharp csharp

[Paul Eggert]

"Joshua Kifer" <joshua at jottnetworks.com> writes:

> the only thing being retained is the timezone name and its UTC
> offset.  No historical data is utilized.

Thanks.  Here's a draft of what could go into tz-link.htm; comments
and corrections are welcome.

   <li><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/publicdomain">PublicDomain</a>
   has a copy of a recent <code>tz</code> database, accessed via a <a
   href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp">C#</a> library. As its
   name suggests, it is in the public domain. Only current time stamps
   are supported; historical data are not used.</li>


> the undocumented and non-standard timezone information in the
> Windows registry (the indices of which actually changed in Windows
> Vista, preventing us from upgrading our services to that OS if we
> had desired to, or desire to in the future).

Ouch.  Does this mean that the Windows-Tzid table maintained by the
CLDR project is incorrect, or that CLDR needs a new table for Vista?
If so, we should warn the CLDR folks about the problem.  Please see
<http://unicode.org/cldr/data/diff/supplemental/windows_tzid.html>.

Also, does this mean that the Wikipedia coverage of this topic is
incorrect and/or incomplete?  Wikipedia addresses some of the issues
with Microsoft Windows and DST, but it doesn't mention the issue of
index changes in Vista.  Please see
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#Microsoft_Windows>.

(See what you get for being helpful?  People keep asking you questions.  :-)