On 2 July 2014 20:13, Mike Douglass <mikeadouglass@gmail.com> wrote:

People on this list may be interested in the following.
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Subject: [apps-discuss] Proposed working group: Timezone Data Distribution Service (tzdist)

Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 11:06:51 -0400

From: Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>

To: Apps Discuss <apps-discuss@ietf.org>
Cyrus Daboo has proposed a new working group in the Applications Area,
and I'm initiating charter discussion on it:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/charter-ietf-tzdist/

Ah, I had noticed http://www.calconnect.org/tc-timezone.shtml the other day and wondered what the status was :-)

Quote:

"The following are Out of scope for the working group:

- Lookup protocols or APIs to map a location to a timezone."

That's a shame as it would be popular. We've actually been discussing such a protocol for use by KDE, Gnome, Mozilla and others, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727698. We did try to get OpenStreetMap to support it, but they decided it was outside their interests.

If it ever comes back in to scope, please let us know :-)

John.