On 2013-09-30 23:42, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2013-09-30 16:53, Paul Eggert wrote:
David Braverman wrote:
MSDN documentation says they're using the IANA database, so I would assume it's a typo in the docs.
Could well be, but if so the same typo is in the documentation for DateTimeFormatter.Format(DateTime, String) <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/Apps/dn264145.aspx>.
Anyway this documentation is marked "preliminary" and "subject to change", so it's probably premature to add Windows to our list of implementations <http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-link.html>.
Their are at least three other hits in their docs:
so I have requested they correct their time zone name references and let the list know of appropriate links to their products using IANA time zones.
Correction - looks like 20 hits across all of their sites: Results 1-20 of 20 for: "IANA Time Zone Database" Library Calendar.GetTimeZone | getTimeZone method (Preliminary) The identifier from the IANA Time Zone Database that identifies the time zone that is used by this Calendar object. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.globalization.c... Stack Overflow I need a list of cities and the corresponding timezone for an ... for completion's sake: This list is just a PHP implementation of the IANA Time Zone Database, but I'm sure you can access it somehow in most programming languages. stackoverflow.com/questions/600359 Stack Overflow datetime - How does the Go programming language handle dates and ... Information on the IANA Time Zone Database, including implementation details, is described in the code repository. – peterSO Mar 18 at 7:17. stackoverflow.com/questions/15470768/how-does-the-go-programming... Library Calendar.ChangeTimeZone | changeTimeZone method (Preliminary) An identifier from the IANA Time Zone Database which identifies the time zone that should be used (for example, "Americas/Los_Angeles" for Pacific Time). http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.globalization.c... Stack Overflow php - Date, Time, DSL and Timezone information handling - Stack ... ... IANA Time Zone Database or Olson database internally. (Although it is possible to feed it timezone data from another database of course.) ... stackoverflow.com/questions/15456961/date-time-dsl-and-timezone... Stack Overflow php - Setting MySQL timezone for session - Stack Overflow But often the better approach is to only store UTC times in your database. You can do timezone translations directly in PHP using the DateTime and DateTimeZone classes. stackoverflow.com/questions/18853820/setting-mysql-timezone-for... Stack Overflow Get Timezone from City in Python/Django - Stack Overflow pytz is a wrapper around IANA Time Zone Database (Olson database). It does not contain data to map an arbitrary city in the world to the timezone it is in. stackoverflow.com/questions/16505501/get-timezone-from-city-in... Stack Overflow c# - Why am i getting this timezone error and is there a better ... 618 times. active. 7 months ago. Get the weekly newsletter! Top questions and answers; Important announcements; Unanswered questions; see an example newsletter. stackoverflow.com/questions/15189381/why-am-i-getting-this... Library Calendar.Calendar(IIterable(String), String, String, String ... An identifier from the IANA Time Zone Database which identifies the time zone that should be used (for example, "Americas/Los_Angeles" for Pacific Time). Remarks. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn264115.aspx Library DateTimeFormatter.Format(DateTime, String) | format(DateTime ... 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