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<title>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</title>
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<meta name="DC.Creator" content="Eggert, Paul" />
<meta name="DC.Contributor" content="Olson, Arthur David" />
<meta name="DC.Date" content="2006-03-31" />
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content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time" />
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content="Sources of information about time zones and daylight saving time">
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content="database,daylight saving,DST,time zone,timezone,tz,zoneinfo" />
content="database,daylight saving,DST,time zone,timezone,tz,zoneinfo">
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<h1>Sources for Time Zone and Daylight Saving Time Data</h1>
@@ -53,6 +52,7 @@ title="DJ's GNU Programming Platform">DJGPP</abbr></a>,
<a href="http://www.sgi.com/developers/technology/irix/">IRIX</a>,
<a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">Mac OS X</a>,
<a href="http://h71000.www7.hp.com/">OpenVMS</a>,
<a href="http://www.oracle.com/database/index.html">Oracle Database</a>,
<a href="http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/">Solaris</a>,
<a href="http://h30097.www3.hp.com/">Tru64</a>, and
<a href="http://www.sco.com/products/unixware/">UnixWare</a>.</p>
@@ -152,13 +152,15 @@ href="http://www.calconnect.org/publications/icalendartimezoneproblemsandrecomme
TIMEZONE Problems and Recommendations</a> offers guidelines and
recommendations for the use of VTIMEZONE and <code>tz</code>.</li>
<li><a
href="http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-royer-timezone-registry/">Time
Zone Registry</a> proposes an <a href="http://www.iana.org/"><abbr
title="Internet Assigned Numbers Authority">IANA</abbr></a> time zone
href="http://www.calconnect.org/publications/timezoneregistryandservicerecommendationsv1.0.pdf">Timezone
Registry and Service Recommendations</a> discusses a
strategy for defining and deploying a time zone
registration process that would establish unique names for each
version of each <code>tz</code> zone, along with a polygonal
representation of the geographical area corresponding to the
zone. (This draft has expired, though.)</li>
zone. It builds on a (now-expired) <a
href="http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-royer-timezone-registry/">Time
Zone Registry</a> draft proposal.</li>
<li>The <a
href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-rdf-calendar/">www-rdf-calendar</a>
list discusses <a
@@ -209,6 +211,10 @@ contains a class
<code>org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler</code> that compiles
<code>tz</code> source into a Joda-specific binary format. Joda Time
is freely available under a <abbr>BSD</abbr>-style license.</li>
<li><a href="http://mozware.free.fr/devtools/xmlDate/">xmlDate</a>
contains <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/js/">JavaScript</a> code that
parses <samp>tz</samp> source into an internal object that represents
a time zone. It is freely available under the GPL.</li>
<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/pytz/">PyTZ - Python Time
Zone Library</a> compiles <code>tz</code> source into
<a href="http://www.python.org/">Python</a>.
@@ -294,6 +300,14 @@ Schedules Information Manual</a> of the
<a href="http://www.iata.org/index.htm">International Air Transport
Association</a>
gives current time zone rules for airports served by commercial aviation.</li>
<li>Some Microsoft Windows versions contain time zone information in
an undocumented format, with IDs that can be mapped to <code>TZ</code>
values using the <a
href="http://unicode.org/cldr/data/diff/supplemental/supplemental.html#windows___tzid">Windows
&rarr; Tzid table</a> maintained by the <a
href="http://unicode.org/cldr/">Unicode Common Locale Data Repository
(<abbr title="Common Locale Data Repository">CLDR</abbr>)
Project</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Maps</h2>
<ul>
@@ -447,7 +461,7 @@ Time Protocol</a>
discusses how to synchronize clocks of
Internet hosts.</li>
<li><a
href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/internet-drafts/draft-lear-dhc-timezone-option-02.txt">A
href="ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-dhc-timezone-option-02.txt">A
Timezone Option for <abbr title="Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol">DHCP</abbr></a> proposes a <a
href="http://www.dhcp.org/">DHCP</a> option for a server to configure
@@ -558,10 +572,7 @@ labels and abbreviations; for example, one can use it to specify
Russian translations for "Eastern European Summer Time",
"<abbr title="Eastern European Summer Time">EEST</abbr>",
and <code>Europe/Bucharest</code>.
This mechanism is part of the
<a href="http://unicode.org/cldr/">Unicode
<abbr title="Common Locale Data Repository">CLDR</abbr> Project</a>;
for example, the <a
For example, the <a
href="http://unicode.org/cldr/data/diff/by_type/dates_timeZoneNames.html"><abbr>CLDR</abbr> Sideways Data for dates_timeZoneNames</a>
shows values for time zone names in many locales.</li>
<li>Alphabetic time zone abbreviations should not be used as unique