IANA time zone database: Difference between revisions

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Abbreviations

IANA time zone database - time zone acronyms

Bugs

IANA time zone database - bugs

Zone terminology

Guy Harris 2013-09-18 23:37:48 http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/020284.html

So I prefer terms such as "tzdb zone" to refer to those things that have tzids. I'm not wedded to *that* term, but there should be *some* term other than "time zone" for that.

The tzdb currently does not have a concept of "time zone" in the sense of a region with a specified base time offset; are you suggesting that it add one?

Localization

CLDR

http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/supplemental/metaZones.xml

territory 001 - might refer to the UN M.49 code for "World".

Zone changes

2013-08-11

-AQ     -7750+16636     Antarctica/McMurdo      McMurdo Station, Ross Island
-AQ     -9000+00000     Antarctica/South_Pole   Amundsen-Scott Station, South Pole
+AQ     -7750+16636     Pacific/Auckland        McMurdo, South Pole, Scott (New Zealand time)

So Pacific/Auckland now has two pairs of coordinates, the new AQ-one and the old NZ-one.

NZ	-3652+17446	Pacific/Auckland	most locations

Connecting Vaduz to Bern Mean Time
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+{{IANA time zone database}}
 == Abbreviations ==
-* [[Internationalized time point unique time zone abbreviations]]
+[[IANA time zone database - time zone acronyms]]
-* http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-October/018362.html - proposal to improve them
+== Bugs ==
+[[IANA time zone database - bugs]]
-=== Special abbreviations ===
+==Zone terminology==
-* LMT - local mean time
+----
+Guy Harris 2013-09-18 23:37:48 http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/020284.html
-=== Composing parts ===
+So I prefer terms such as "tzdb zone" to refer to those things that have tzids.  I'm not wedded to *that* term, but there should be *some* term other than "time zone" for that.
-* final T = Time
-* letters preceding final T, sometimes have one of these meanings:
-** D = Daylight Saving
-** S = Standard, sometimes Summer
-** W = War (northamerica file)
-** P = Peace (northamerica file)
-** M = Mean (europe file: MMT # Moscow Mean Time)
-** M = Midsummer (europe file: Moscow - M # Midsummer)
-* two letters preceding final T sometimes have one of these meanings:
-** DS = Double Summer (europe file: MDST # Moscow Double Summer Time)
-** LM = Local Mean
-== Bugs ==
+The tzdb currently does not have a concept of "time zone" in the sense of a region with a specified base time offset; are you suggesting that it add one?
-Some fixes can be found at [[ANNA time zone database]].
+----
-{| class="wikitable sortable"
-! Country
-! Description
-! Open since at least
-! Why not fixed?
-|-
-| [[Australia]]
-| EST and CST are used as acronyms for AEST/AEDT and CEST/CEDT, i.e. during DST one cannot tell from the acronym what zone is meant.
-| 2006-06-02 04:08:36 [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/1042/match=est]
-| TZ coordinator (Paul Eggert) does not want to fix
-|-
-| [[Indonesia]]
-| WIT means Western Indonesian Time, but in local Indonesian language, WIT stands for Waktu Indonesia Timur (Eastern Indonesian Time), change requests - without mentioning the ambiguity - go back to 2003 [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.glibc/12741/match=wita+wib+wit]
-| 2013-02-13 14:17:58 [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/5839]
-| TZ coordinator (Paul Eggert) does not fix
-|-
-| [[Norway]]
-| No IANA zone defined for Bouvet Island while Norwegian law sets a standard time http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/5218/
-| 2012-05-29 18:32:23 [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/5218/]
-| TZ coordinator (Paul Eggert) does not want to fix
-|-
-| [[Russia]]
-|
-*Zones in Siberia are wrong
-* patch provided 2012-05-02 22:18:43 by Arthur David Olson [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4905/match=barnaul+tomsk]
-| 2011-09-17 16:12:16 [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4872/match=siberia]
-| TZ coordinator (Paul Eggert) does not fix - reason unknown
-|}
 ==Localization==
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 * territory 001 - might refer to the UN M.49 code for "World".
+==Zone changes==
+-08-11
+ -AQ     -7750+16636     Antarctica/McMurdo      McMurdo Station, Ross Island
+ -AQ     -9000+00000     Antarctica/South_Pole   Amundsen-Scott Station, South Pole
+ +AQ     -7750+16636     Pacific/Auckland        McMurdo, South Pole, Scott (New Zealand time)
+So Pacific/Auckland now has two pairs of coordinates, the new AQ-one and the old NZ-one.
+ NZ	-3652+17446	Pacific/Auckland	most locations
+*Connecting Vaduz to Bern Mean Time
+**http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/020085.html