All, Is https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/master/tzfile.5 the normative reference for the binary format of tzdata? I thinking about writing an I-D to register application/tzfile as a MIME type for use with TZDist <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7808> and I obviously need a reference to the file format. Or should I document the format in the draft? Does anyone want to suggest a different name for the format? -- Kenneth Murchison Cyrus Development Team FastMail Pty Ltd
Ken Murchison wrote:
Is https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/master/tzfile.5 the normative reference for the binary format of tzdata?
That's the development version, yes. The latest released version is here: ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/tzdb/tzfile.5 (Unfortunately it's not available via https: directly, though we'd like to fix that.)
I thinking about writing an I-D to register application/tzfile as a MIME type for use with TZDist <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7808> and I obviously need a reference to the file format. Or should I document the format in the draft? Does anyone want to suggest a different name for the format?
Presumably somebody (you? perhaps with my help?) would need to document the format in IETF-ese. application/tzfile sounds good to me.
Quoting Paul Eggert on Monday November 13, 2017:
(Unfortunately it's not available via https: directly, though we'd like to fix that.)
The whole repository is actually available at https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/ it just does not have any auto-indexing to provide a file listing. You can access that specific file directly at: https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/code/tzfile.5 kim
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