Re: RFC 2445 Q: is TZID broken?

[Mark Swanson <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On January 22, 2003 02:53 pm, pregen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Mark, having different implementations is a hurdle to interoperability.
> This is one of the items that is being worked on during our interop
> testing.  I know there was some work going on about having one place/table
> to use for timezones.  The Olson table was suggested - although people
> have commented that it is not all-inclusive.  Mr. Olson said he was
> willing to share this table with the IETF world so there would be one
> common repository.  What he did not want to do was be responsible for
> communicating changes back and forth to the IETF.  he has another person,
> anyway, who manages this.  I brought it up to management at the IETF - and
> they said they were will to have someone "be responsible" for intereacting
> with the Olson table group.  I think it simply fell off of the radar scope
> for someone to follow up and continue this effort.  I keep hoping someone
> on this list is a zealot about timezones and would be willing to help
> "nudge" this along.

Interesting. Thanks.

Would it be feasible to say that it may have fallen off of the radar scope 
because strings like "US-Eastern" are just identifiers and the real time zone 
definition is in VTIMEZONE (which can define any past/present/future time 
zone including daylight savings)?

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