Good question. I took a look through the source code and the database has been converted into XML. (Just do a grep on Pacific). What I found was that the only thing being retained is the timezone name and its UTC offset. No historical data is utilized. Unfortunate, but at least my company can refrain from any longer utilizing the undocumented and non-standard timezone information in the Windows registry (the indices of which actually changed in Windows Vista, preventing us from upgrading our services to that OS if we had desired to, or desire to in the future). Joshua
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 10:35 AM To: Joshua Kifer Cc: tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov Subject: Re: FW: Implementation of zoneinfo (Olson, tz) database in .NET c-sharp csharp
"Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]" <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> writes:
From: Joshua Kifer [mailto:joshua@jotts.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 8:33 PM
Thanks for mentioning that. Do you know how it works? It appears to have a copy of the tz database, translated into C# (how?).
Suppose a new version of the tz database comes out: how would the change be propagated?