John Layt wrote:

"(An example is "Americas/Los_Angeles" for Pacific Time.)". Does anyone know if they've just adopted the IDs using a translation table, or are actually using the database?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.globalization.c...

If they are really returning "Americas/Los_Angeles" then they can't be using the tz database unmodified, as its name omits the first "s".

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>.

On 2013-09-30 23:42, Brian Inglis wrote:

On 2013-09-30 16:53, Paul Eggert wrote:

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David Braverman wrote:

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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.

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