On 2022-10-06 4:07 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 2022-10-06 13:01, Brooks Harris via tz wrote:
Windows derives its time zones from tzdb, mapped through Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR):
GitHub windowsZones.xml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/cldr/master/common/supplementa...
I believe this file is curated by Microsoft.
Yes, as I understand it Microsoft Windows 8.1 and later has data derived from tzdb in its Windows Runtime / Universal Windows Platform classes. The time zone information resides in the Windows Registry, at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Time Zones
There's also Windows Subsystem for Linux, which is shipped by Microsoft and is a virtualized Ubuntu with its own copy of tzdb, though I doubt whether WSL is relevant here.
I do not have experience with WSL, but its said to run Linux *directly* within Windows, not as a virtual machine. What is the Windows Subsystem for Linux? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about