Thank you very much - this helps a lot! "Gwillim Law" <RLAW@nc.rr.com> To 02/21/2008 08:37 <tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov> PM cc <ilya.shtein@metavante.com> Subject Re: Time Zone abbreviations - request If you want a short location code that can be justified as authoritative, UN/LOCODE is an international standard for representing locations. The codes are five letters, separated by a space after the first two. The first two letters are the same as the ISO 3166-1 country code. The three letters are sometimes the same as an IATA city code, but I don't think that's guaranteed. LOCODE is primarily used in electronic data interchange (EDI). It covers 54,000+ locations, and I think there's probably at least one location in each Olson time zone. The place to find out more, including looking up the codes, is http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/. Gwillim Law ----- Original Message ----- From: "Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]" <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov>
-----Original Message----- From: Ilya.Shtein@metavante.com [mailto:Ilya.Shtein@metavante.com]
Our company is in need for standard abbreviations that would map one-to-one to the names used in the Olson database.
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