There are many sources for polygons for country boundaries. It would suffice to have the polygons within those countries that have multiple timezones.

Mark

On 6/29/06, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> wrote:
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@lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Subject: Re: FW: Time Zone Area Polygons

Paul Eggert wrote: 
"Olson, Arthur David \(NIH/NCI\) [E]" 
<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/>.  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/timezoneregistryandservicerecommendationsv1.0.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>.  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