[tz] Today's CalConnect event

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Mon Feb 11 16:49:37 UTC 2019


On Tue 2019-02-05T14:52:41-0800 Kim Davies hath writ:
> In short, ISO is a forum for standards development and unlikely to play
> any operational role in maintaining any speculated registry. This is
> perhaps akin to the split of responsibilities between the IETF and IANA.

For comparison with the IANA tz data, the IATA has a database of time
zones as an appendix to a document called SSIM.  That consists of
records of 390 ASCII characters in columns at a cost of $1329.00 USD
https://www.iata.org/publications/store/Documents/Passenger%20Standards/specifications-utc-app-f.pdf

SSIM is structured as the offsets currently in effect; history is not
included.  It is unclear to me why an airline would subscribe to this
information rather than rely on IANA tz.

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