[tz] tzdist and tz at iana
Ken Murchison
murch at andrew.cmu.edu
Wed Sep 7 21:25:36 UTC 2016
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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