New home for time zone stuff by 2012?

[Shreyas Kumar]

Yes,
Even this wikipedia article mentions 'Olson Database'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoneinfo

-Shreyas

----- Original Message -----
From: autarch at urth.org
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Cc: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 2:20:14 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: New home for time zone stuff by 2012?

On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Sue Williams wrote:

> It would be nice to have a formal name for this tz group.  The tz database
> has always sounded a bit informal to me. It doesn't sound like a name and
> so this group doesn't seem to have a name.

I've always called this "the Olson time zone database", and I think it'd 
be great to make that official in honor of ado, especially once he steps 
down.

> It would be nice if the tz mailing list was posted in a news group format
> or forum where different threads of discussion could be tracked
> separately.

And also was archived by things like gmane and other 
convenient-to-search-and-browse places.


-dave

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