That sounds like the best abbreviation, with the full name being Olson Time Zone Identifier. And as a reference, should we say something like: Olson Time Zone Identifier (Olson TZID) as defined by ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/ Is there a stable link to a document that we could cite as the specification for the IDs, instead of just pointing to an FTP site? http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm is more of a background document than a specification. Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com ► शिष्यादिच्छेत्पराजयम् ◄ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Eggert" <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> To: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis@jtcsv.com> Cc: <tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov> Sent: Fri, 2004 Jun 11 17:34 Subject: Re: Time Zone Localizations
"Mark Davis" <mark.davis@jtcsv.com> writes:
it sounds like Olson zone identifier or maybe Olson time zone identifier?
RFC 2445 calls these sorts of things TZIDs, so perhaps "Olson TZID"? Or if you want to spell out "identifier", then "Olson TZ identifier"? They are used as values of the TZ environment variable, so "TZ" has a good pedigree.