IANA time zone database: Difference between revisions
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Revision as of 2013-04-11T08:55:00
Abbreviations
- Internationalized time point unique time zone abbreviations
- http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-October/018362.html - proposal to improve them
Special abbreviations
- LMT - local mean time
Composing parts
| position from right | Letter | Meaning | Occurrence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | T | Time | always |
| 2 | D | Daylight (Saving) (DST 1:00) | |
| 2 | S | Standard | several |
| 2 | S | Summer (DST 1:00) | europe file: e.g. BST British Summer Time, CEST Central European Summer Time |
| 2 | W | War | northamerica file: US and Mexico |
| 2 | P | Peace | northamerica file: US |
| 2 | M | Mean | europe file: MMT # Moscow Mean Time |
| 2 | M | Midsummer (DST 2:00) | europe file: Moscow - M # Midsummer, also for Spain, France, Germany/SovietZone |
| 32 | LM | Local Mean | several |
| 32 | DS | Double Summer (DST 2:00) | europe file: MDST # Moscow Double Summer Time, BDST - British Double Summer Time |
| 32 | DD | Double Daylight (Saving) (DST 2:00) | northamerica file: StJohns 1988) |
| 32 | HS | half summer time? (DST 0:30) | australasia file: Pacific/Rarotonga CK%sT and "HS" |
| 32 | HS | ? (DST 0:20) | africa file: Rule Ghana 1936-1942 |
| 32 | HD | half daylight saving time? (DST 0:30) |
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Bugs
Some fixes can be found at ANNA time zone database.
| 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 [1] | 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 [2] | 2013-02-13 14:17:58 [3] | 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 [4] | TZ coordinator (Paul Eggert) does not want to fix |
| Russia |
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2011-09-17 16:12:16 [6] | TZ coordinator (Paul Eggert) does not fix - reason unknown |
Localization
CLDR
http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/supplemental/metaZones.xml
- territory 001 - might refer to the UN M.49 code for "World".