From: Mark Davis (mark.davis@jtcsv.com)
Date: Sat Apr 24 2004 - 20:04:57 EDT
LDML does require the Olson IDs to identify time zones (as does Unix, Java,
ICU,...). See the discussion in
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/.
Mark
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From: "Frank Yung-Fong Tang" <ytang0648@aol.com>
To: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis@jtcsv.com>
Cc: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Fri, 2004 Apr 23 08:51
Subject: OT: Standardize TimeZone ID
Is there any standard effort try to standardize Time Zone ID? I am not
talking about the Time Zone which refer to a particular time (that could
be done by GMT offset or addressed by ISO 8601) itself, but rather
talking about an id refer to a particular time zone/ day light saving
time rule.
I know the de factor standard around is the one in
"ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz" . Probably people also use the timezone
value get back from Java a lot.
I think a standard (maybe just adopt the one
"ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tz" and cleary specify it in RFC) for
Timezone ID is important for the future common locale data repository as
well as web services i18n.
I know this is a little bit off-topic for Unicode, just like the one
about locale. Maybe I should move this to w3c i18n mailling list.
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