Posix Timezone format

Fri Nov 14 00:49:13 UTC 2008

I have developed a time zone systems that uses ISO-3166

AnyDateTime CREATED BOLD DARING NEW  TECHNIQUES. 

The results  had amazing results: 
·         Incredible  speed.  
·         Incredible  capabilities. 
·         Incredible  simplicity. 

The results  are exciting, but striving for perfection required tremendous 
tenacity but was  very satisfying.    

AnyDateTime¾USES INTERNATIONAL  STANDARDS. 

Date/time format conversion.   
Uses the ISO-8601  (International Organization for Standardization) date/time 
formats.   
The Internet XML requires the  use of this format.   
·          Converts North America  formats 06/18/2008 01pm to the common 
world use of 18.06.2008 13:00 or the  international standard 2008-06-18T13:00:00 
·          Features that are  unique to international ISO-8601 standard are 
implemented into local date/time  formats.  Therefore, an  international 
date/time can be converted to a local date/time and back to the  international 
date/time. 
Date/time time-zone  conversion. 
Uses the ISO-3166 location  codes for countries and states.  
·          The same codes used to  mail letters are used to converting US EST 
(EDT) to CST (CDT), MST (MDT), PST  (PDT), AST (ADT) or HST or anywhere else 
in the world. 
Uses the IATA city codes  (International Air Transport Association). 
·          The same 3  letter code on your airline luggage can be used for 
time zone conversion and  currency conversion. 
Date/time  manipulation. 
Uses the ISO-8601  durations. 
·          The ISO-8601  duration “PnYnMnDTnHnMnS” is used for working with 
years, months, days, hours,  minutes, seconds or fractions of time regardless 
of MM/DD/YYYY, DD.MM.YYYY or  YYYY-MM-DD format. 
Adding/subtracting  date/time 
Setting date/time to a specific date/time,  like the start and ending of 
daylight. 
Getting date/time for different formats  like “6/18/2008 1pm” or “2008-01-18 
13:00” 
Comparing different formats equal  
“06/18/2008 6pm-05;00” = “2008-06-19  01:00+02:00”   
Finding the difference in years, hours, days,  hours, minutes, seconds or in 
combinations of elements.  
·          Created a new  “Event Algebra” by expanding the ISO-8601 
durations “=±P=±nY=±nM=±nD=±T=±nH=±nM=±nS=±.nF”. 
The event of the start of  daylight saving time is: 
The 3rd month,  the 2cd week, on the 1st day of the week at 2am 
The formula  =03m14d-1dwT=2h 
This is much simpler than the Microsoft’s  Excel or Visual Basic methods.  
Currency  conversion. 
Global selling requires currency conversion as  well as time conversions.  
The same  way is sued for currency conversion as is used for time zone  
conversion. 

AnyDateTime UNIQUE  CREATIONS. 

Created the  fastest time zone conversion routine in the  world. 
For the first time every,  computers can do simultaneous mixed-radix 
arithmetic.  If it is plugged into the C/C++  conversions routines or IBM’s durations 
routines they run 2.75 time  faster. 

Created the  fastest date/time validation routines in the  world. 
The checking for 30 and  31 day months and leap years is so fast it is almost 
un-measurable for a million  date/time checks, so it is always on. 
Java date/time check is  so slow it permits it to be turned off for speed. 
IBM’s date/time almost  doubles the CPU usage if date/time is checked. 
C/C++ requires  programmers to write their own 30 day month check else it 
converts
2008-06-31  to 2008-07-01 without error indicator. 

Created “Event  Algebra” that simplifies event calculation and provides a 
standard method for  event calculation. 
The ISO-8601  duration “PnYnMnDTnHnMnS” has been expanded to create “Event  
Algebra”.

Created an  Internet auto synchronization for client table  update. 
When North America  changed the daylight savings time, your computer was 
updated automatically over  the Internet.   However,  companies doing business 
over around the world need the time zones of everywhere  in the world.  Those 
nice time zone  lines on maps or computer screens are no more than approximations 
and don’t  reflect daylight savings time.      

The advantages of a local  service: 
·          A local service  program can do in minutes what takes days using a 
Web-service.  
·          The  auto-synchronization feature give local services the same 
features as  Web-services, it updates the tables on the client computer without 
any manual  intervention. 

The risks with  Web-services: 
·          Some applications kill  Internet performance, so all other 
applications suffers. 
·          The potential for  gouging by application service providers (ASP). 
·          No control over ASP  performance or quality. 

The disadvantage of other  local services: 
·          Other date/time  routines use the “tz.database” that must be 
compiled on the client’s computer  and requires manually intervention to put into 
production.   

AnyDateTime date/time data type has incredible  capabilities. 

Herman J  Woudenberg 

The world’s  largest date range has a worlds largest date range of 2 million 
years  (±1 million –1  year). 
UNIX/LINUX JAVA & C/C++ have a date range of 68  years, 1970 to 2038. 
ANSI COBOL-90 has a date range from 1601 to 9999.    
IBM Power PC computer has a date range from 1483 to  9999. 
Microsoft .NET (Vista) has a date range from 0001 to  9999. 
Microsoft Com (XP) has a date range from 1600 to 9999.   
Oracle has a date range from 4500BC to 9999  AD. 

The world’s  smallest time precision as small as femto-seconds, 15 fractional 
 digits_[i]_ (aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_edn1) . 
UNIX and  C only have whole seconds, no fractions of seconds.
Java has  milliseconds, 3 fractional digits.
IBM has  up to microseconds, 6 fractions digits.
Microsoft has 100 nanoseconds, about 7 fractional digits.
Oracle  has up to 9 fractions digits.
Network  Time Protocol has 10 fractional digits.

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_[i]_ (aoldb://mail/write/template.htm#_ednref1)   Fractions of seconds. 
Milli-second (ms or msec) is one thousandth of a second  (.999 or 10-3).  
It is used for read/write  time of hard disk or CD-ROM and packet travel time 
on the Internet.   
Micro-second (us or Greek letter mu plus s) is one  millionth (.999_999 or 
10-6) of a second.   
It is used to measure the speed of  CPUs. 
Nano-secnd (ns or nsec) is one billionth (.999_999_999 or  10-9) of a second. 

It is used for read/write  time of random access memory (RAM).   
Pico-second is one trillionth (.999_999_999_999 or  10-12) of a second, or 
one millionth of a microsecond.   
It is used by the Net Work Time Protocol  clock. 
Femto-second is one millionth of a nanosecond  (.999_999_999_999_999 or 
10-15) of a  second. 
It is used in laser technology.   
Atto-second is one quintillionth  (.999_999_999_999_999_999 or 10-18) of a 
second.   
It is a used in photon research.   

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