At 12:31 13/11/03 -0800, Carl Witty wrote:
I just looked up the list of timezone abbreviations, and it's pretty short. The library could easily include this list.
Where did you find this list? With a little Google searching I found several conflicting sources:
FWIW, a widely respected source is the Olson database, at: ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ Ah, I see you mention that too: [[ The data which is currently "authoritative", at least for Linux (the ultimate source for the files in my /usr/share/zoneinfo directory), is the tzdata package from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/. ]] This is cited by RFC2445 (iCalendar), and was frequently mentioned in the old IETF calendaring/scheduling discussions that I reviewed some time ago. But in the end it proved to be a somewhat intractable topic, which is why we went for the cut down time-and-date format specification in RFC 3339. #g ------------ Graham Klyne For email: http://www.ninebynine.org/#Contact