Re: RFC 2445 Q: is TZID broken?

[John Stracke <jstracke@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

pregen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On January 22, 2003 02:53 pm, mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > Would it be feasible to say that it may have fallen off of the radar scope 
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> > because strings like "US-Eastern" are just identifiers and the real time 
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> zone 
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> > definition is in VTIMEZONE (which can define any past/present/future time 
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> > zone including daylight savings)?
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> Not really.  It fell off the radar screen because of time constraints for 
> people.  It had nothing to do with where it fell in the draft.  It was 
> where it fell on people's time schedules...
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Well, yes, but the fact that we don't really need global TZIDs has 
surely made a difference in people's priorities.

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