MSDN documentation says they're using the IANA database, so I would assume it's a typo in the docs. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.globalization.c... As soon as I update to Windows 8.1 I'll verify this. -----Original Message----- From: tz-bounces@iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces@iana.org] On Behalf Of Paul Eggert Sent: Monday 30 September 2013 13:11 To: John Layt Cc: tz@iana.org Subject: Re: [tz] Our Palestinian New Time Zone John Layt wrote:
"(An example is "Americas/Los_Angeles" for Pacific Time.)". Does anyone know if they've just adopted the IDs using a translation table, or are actually using the database?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.globalization.c...
If they are really returning "Americas/Los_Angeles" then they can't be using the tz database unmodified, as its name omits the first "s".