[tz] tzdist and tz at iana

Michael Douglass mikeadouglass at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 22:34:19 UTC 2016


Do indeed - though I think it needs a little tweaking to fully comply.
To be accurate it's a java servlet implementation which runs on a java 
compliant server - tomcat, jboss/wildfly etc

On 9/7/16 17:25, Ken Murchison wrote:
>
>
> On 09/07/2016 05:00 PM, Tim Parenti wrote:
>>
>> On 7 September 2016 at 16:52, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu
>> <mailto:eggert at cs.ucla.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>         Ideally, tzcode would include a reference implementation of an
>>         RFC 7808 "Time Zone Data Server".  Wasn't such a reference
>>         implementation created by the tzdist group?
>>
>>
>>     The test server that I found most-recently discussed in the tzdist
>>     archive was operated at CMU. I don't know the details (perhaps Tim
>>     does?) but I expect it was based on Cyrus IMAP, which uses vzic to
>>     convert from tz format.
>>
>>
>> Although I am, in fact, now at Carnegie Mellon University, I wasn't
>> involved with the tzdist demo server.  That was Ken Murchison's doing.
>
> Yes, I am to blame.  Its bundled with our CalDAV/CardDAV server which is
> part of Cyrus IMAP.  It would be non-trivial to make it a standalone
> service.  The folks that work on Bedework (namely Mike Douglass) may
> have something that can operate as an applet within Apache.
>
> --
> Kenneth Murchison
> Principal Systems Software Engineer
> Carnegie Mellon University
>


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