Re: RFC 2445 Q: is TZID broken?

[Bruce_Kahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Pat wrote on 01/22/2003 02:53:58 PM:
>           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.

A long time ago Doug has a side effort
going to convert the Olsen info into VTIMEZONEs (or was that Daemon??)
 Perhaps we can get some zealot (or any other volunteer) to work on
a tool to convert the Olsen info into VTIMEZONEs that we provide as reference
data...

Doug already has enough on his lap so
Id see if someone else wants to revive that effort...

Bruce <sititng back down to hide
from the volunteer selecting gaze of the WG chairs...>
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