July 2006 - tz - lists.iana.org

license fro tzcode and tzdata
by Cynthia Tham July 7, 2006

July 7, 2006

We'd like to incorporate tzcode into our product but couldn't find the license file. Is it under some open source license? Could you point me to the license that covers tzcode and tzdata? Thanks! Cynthia

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by semicro＠cetacea.com July 6, 2006

July 6, 2006

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RE: Possible corrections?
by Phillip Guerra July 6, 2006

July 6, 2006

Just to clarify... I'm not advocating changing the format of the datastore. You notice I refer to it as a datastore, not a database, because to do so implies IMHO that it is structured with a unique database format, which of course it is not. Easy editing by humans is certainly the goal, what I suggested is merely avoiding the ambiguity assosiciated with some of the data, not the structure exactly. As I move more comfortably with using my new Linux test machine, I would probably agree that the zic output would be maybe a better choice for machine exchange, and my efforts would have taken less time if I had a system to use ZIC when I began. However, when the original parsing language and programms are not used with the native datastore, the TZINFO datastore is what is used as a base. The C language, while indeed portable, is not the issue for converting to an easily integrated datastore for MS .Net compliant apps. The MS O/S uses timezone information in their registry, and that is not exactly a good thing, given the lack of historical reference support. Others on the list have created apps using Ruby, Perl, and other languages for use in providing MS O/S apps, and MS .Net integration, so it's just a matter of providing the datastore as a base for whatever integration is required. Then, the apps would deal with the data and timezone conversion in whatever way is needed. I think the learning curve here for most newer folks is understanding the legacy of the TZ datastore. Many newbies are not familiar with C or Posix, and really need to understand that the datastore is formatted just a Ken says 'The tzdata source format is intended for easy editing by humans...' and 'the primary format really needs to be oriented for the ease of human editing and proofreading.' So, including the mention of this type of information in the download would be very beneficial, and may lessen the frustration for folks wanting to use the datastore for their own development efforts. I would not change anything, as after all is said, my development work depends on the datastore staying the same as it is now, I can handle the cross-machine irregularities after reading the ZIC doc, and that's the way it should be. Of course, developers need to actually 'read' the doc. -----Original Message----- From: Ken Pizzini [mailto:tz.@explicate.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 3:43 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Cc: Phillip Guerra Subject: Re: Possible corrections? On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:59:43AM -0500, Phillip Guerra wrote: > Yes, it would be a help to provide the documentation note. As one of > the new 'independent' TZ database users (actually developer), I > struggled with the format, until I found the zic doc by accident. I > didn't have a linux or Unix system available for a resource, so was > trying to use the TZ datastore and convert it for use with MS ASP.Net. > The tab formatting of the file was not consistent, and I remedied that > by parsing it with custom programs that converted it. It sounds like what is missing is documentation (presumably in the tzdata file comments?) that independent developers are encouraged to download the reference tzcode tarball. This way they get both the zic.8.txt documentation of the zone file format, and the reference implementation of zic.c to use both as a starting point for their own conversion software and to clarify any ambiguities in the zic.8 document (ideally, in this latter case, with a bug report about the ambiguity sent to the TZ list). > I don't really have a preference for which operating system is a > developer or user's choice, While the heritage is Unix, the tzcode source is mostly portable ANSI C (ignoring the code for the "date" target, which has highly system-specific code, and the tendency to use POSIX I/O even when stdio would be fine). The bit that parses the tzdata files is highly system agnostic. > but find it really handy to opt for some kind of datastore structure > that is easily translated from one system to another. It's just a > nice feature to provide. In this case, the TZ datastore is the de > facto standard for this type of information, not only for Unix /Linux > systems but becoming a standard reference tool for other systems as > well, like it or not. The tzdata source format is intended for easy editing by humans, not interchange between machines; if one is interested in machine-oriented data, the zic output is probably a better first choice, though creating a third format that is more database-like (transformed from tzdata by a zic-like tool) might be a reasonable idea. But the primary format really needs to be oriented for the ease of human editing and proofreading. > The only critique I have is the > somewhat confusing aspect of the use of the AT field: [...] > and hour 24 is midnight at the end of the day. Any > of these forms may be followed by the letter w if > the given time is local "wall clock" time, s if the > given time is local "standard" time, or u (or g or > z) if the given time is universal time; in the > absence of an indicator, wall clock time is assumed. > > It would make lessen the confusion or how to translate this field if > the data were always presented in wall clock time, for us independent > types, anyway. Again, the source file is oriented towards human editing. The suffixes are provided to allow the tzdata entry to mimic the official legislation or decrees, to allow easier eyeball cross-checking. --Ken Pizzini Confidentiality Notice: This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s), and may contain privileged or confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. 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FW: FW: Time Zone Area Polygons
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] July 6, 2006

July 6, 2006

Brak is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado ________________________________ From: Brak [mailto:Brak@neo.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 4:40 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: FW: Time Zone Area Polygons Paul Eggert wrote: "Olson, Arthur David \(NIH/NCI\) [E]" <olsona(a)dc37a.nci.nih.gov> <mailto:olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> writes: I have read at several websites about there being time zone area polygon lists. For example a file called New_Yok.geo. That'd be news to me. Good news. Can you give URLs for this? I just now Googled for New_York.geo, but all I found was Doug Royer's expired draft proposal for a registry for such data <http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-royer-timezone-registry/> <http://ietfreport.isoc.org/idref/draft-royer-timezone-registry/> . As far as I know, this has not been implemented. I have seen technical recommendations for a time zone service that might contain the data you're talking about <http://www.calconnect.org/publications/timezoneregistryandservicerecomm endationsv1.0.pdf> <http://www.calconnect.org/publications/timezoneregistryandservicerecomm endationsv1.0.pdf> , once it gets implemented. The item google gave you is the site that I heard about it. So can you please direct me to where I can download the timezone area polygons. Some timezone area data is mentioned under "Time zone boundaries" in <http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm> <http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm> . You can look there, but I suspect it won't be exactly what you want. The only one that looks to have potential was the link to http://www.manifold.net/download/freemaps.html On that site they have a link to a TZ boundary database ftp://69.17.46.170/downloads/free_world/WorldTZ.zip But that link keeps timing out. i did a search for the file itself under google, and the two "mirrors" for it are down as well. Do you happen to know how to get this file? Thanks in advance. B"H John

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RE: Possible corrections?
by Phillip Guerra July 5, 2006

July 5, 2006

Yes, it would be a help to provide the documentation note. As one of the new 'independent' TZ database users (actually developer), I struggled with the format, until I found the zic doc by accident. I didn't have a linux or Unix system available for a resource, so was trying to use the TZ datastore and convert it for use with MS ASP.Net. The tab formatting of the file was not consistent, and I remedied that by parsing it with custom programs that converted it. I don't really have a preference for which operating system is a developer or user's choice, but find it really handy to opt for some kind of datastore structure that is easily translated from one system to another. It's just a nice feature to provide. In this case, the TZ datastore is the de facto standard for this type of information, not only for Unix /Linux systems but becoming a standard reference tool for other systems as well, like it or not. Now, to be honest all systems have their issues, so it's not really a question of which O/S is best, but rather how system administrators, developers, and users can best be helped by standarding on common refernce information, such as, timezones. Not an easy task since globally there is no single historical authoritive source. However, since the TZ datastore is the closest I've found, it's the one I'll use, rather than creating another competing version. The only thing I'm doing is making it easier to implement and update for MS systems. If only MS would see fit to use a similar tact, then maybe we could get past the silly issues of converting it. All in all, no matter what doc is available, we still depend on developers to intpreted it correctly. The only critique I have is the somewhat confusing aspect of the use of the AT field: AT Gives the time of day at which the rule takes effect. Recognized forms include: 2 time in hours 2:00 time in hours and minutes 15:00 24-hour format time (for times after noon) 1:28:14 time in hours, minutes, and seconds - equivalent to 0 where hour 0 is midnight at the start of the day, and hour 24 is midnight at the end of the day. Any of these forms may be followed by the letter w if the given time is local "wall clock" time, s if the given time is local "standard" time, or u (or g or z) if the given time is universal time; in the absence of an indicator, wall clock time is assumed. It would make lessen the confusion or how to translate this field if the data were always presented in wall clock time, for us independent types, anyway. Just my 2 cents. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU] Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 5:30 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: Possible corrections? Oscar van Vlijmen <ovv(a)hetnet.nl> writes: > Sorry for my annoying remarks, but the independent TZ database users > keep coming and they apparently get easily confused by the current > structure or markup of the data files. In this particular case, the user had not read the manual, and didn't even know one existed. That would be a problem no matter what format we had chosen. Perhaps we could forestall future questions like this by starting each data file with a line saying "The format of this file is described in <http://www.twinsun.com/man/zic.8.html>." or something like that. Confidentiality Notice: This email message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s), and may contain privileged or confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by replying to this email, and delete all copies of the original message.

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Re: tz
by Tommie Villa July 5, 2006

July 5, 2006

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RE: Possible corrections?
by srdjan krajnalic July 3, 2006

July 3, 2006

Hello again :) Can someone please explain this: Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] Zone Europe/Dublin -0:25:00 - LMT 1880 Aug 2 -0:25:21 - DMT 1916 May 21 2:00 -0:25:21 1:00 IST 1916 Oct 1 2:00s The last line has -0:25:21 min as the GMT offset - is it possible that the rule name is "1:00" ? Lines 428-430 in the europe file. Thank you much, Srdjan

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FW: adding specific timezone location question
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] July 3, 2006

July 3, 2006

Patrick Ford is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Ford [mailto:patrickdotford@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 01, 2006 8:21 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: adding specific timezone location question This will probably sound like a rather petty request and to be honest it is...but I was wondering what one could do to have a specific location added to the timezone listing? I have only recently fully switched to linux as my only OS on my notebook and while installing (K)Ubuntu I noticed on the timezone selection that Kentucky/Monticello was available as a place. I live in Kentucky but in the Central timezone and thought it would be cool to have my city (Russell Springs) listed. Anyway I found this email on the rpmfind page for the timezone package. I apologize if this is an incorrect address or an inappropriate request. Thank you for your time, Patrick Ford

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adding specific timezone location question
by Patrick Ford July 2, 2006

July 2, 2006

This will probably sound like a rather petty request and to be honest it is...but I was wondering what one could do to have a specific location added to the timezone listing? I have only recently fully switched to linux as my only OS on my notebook and while installing (K)Ubuntu I noticed on the timezone selection that Kentucky/Monticello was available as a place. I live in Kentucky but in the Central timezone and thought it would be cool to have my city (Russell Springs) listed. Anyway I found this email on the rpmfind page for the timezone package. I apologize if this is an incorrect address or an inappropriate request. Thank you for your time, Patrick Ford

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FW: Time Zone Area Polygons
by Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] July 1, 2006

July 1, 2006

John is not on the time zone mailing list; direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Brak [mailto:Brak@neo.rr.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:03 PM To: tz(a)lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Time Zone Area Polygons I have read at several websites about there being time zone area polygon lists. For example a file called New_Yok.geo. I can't find the files anywhere though. In order to make use of your timezone database, such a database (area polygon) would be needed. Knowing that the New York area is EST isn't sufficient info, as it begs the question "what are the boundaries of this area?" So can you please direct me to where I can download the timezone area polygons. Thanks in advance. B"H John

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