I am new in this mailing list so, please, forgive me if this has been asked before. I'm trying to map the list of time zones that Windows XP includes, to the correct binary files in tz Database, but I am missing some of them. I just could not find which one to use or if it is supported at all. Here is the list: (GMT - 12:00) International Date Line West (GMT - 06:00) Central America (GMT - 03:00) Brasilia (GMT - 02:00) Mid-Atlantic (GMT + 01:00) West Central Africa (GMT + 06:00) Sri Jayawardenepura (GMT + 13:00) Nuku’alofa Also, is there any site where I can find documentation about this library? Thanks a lot for your help. RBallen
This article mentions both Windows and time zone database time zones. The author (as well as the people on this list) may have have some insights whether mapping is possible or feasible. I doubt the mapping is one-to-one and suspect that the task is difficult. Please share your results with this list. TimeZone and DaylightTime Classes in Microsoft .NET MultiLingual Magazine #59 Volume 14 Issue 7 http://www.multilingual.com/FMPro?-db=archives&-format=ourpublication%2ffeat... Chuck At 9:14 AM -0700 5/18/04, Ruby Ballen wrote:
I am new in this mailing list so, please, forgive me if this has been asked before.
I'm trying to map the list of time zones that Windows XP includes, to the correct binary files in tz Database, but I am missing some of them. I just could not find which one to use or if it is supported at all. Here is the list:
(GMT - 12:00) International Date Line West (GMT - 06:00) Central America (GMT - 03:00) Brasilia (GMT - 02:00) Mid-Atlantic (GMT + 01:00) West Central Africa (GMT + 06:00) Sri Jayawardenepura (GMT + 13:00) Nuku'alofa
Also, is there any site where I can find documentation about this library?
Thanks a lot for your help.
RBallen
From: Ruby Ballen <RBallen@hypercom.com> Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:14:38 -0700 Subject: Time zones from Windows XP
(GMT - 12:00) International Date Line West No inhabited places are in this timezone, hence no entries in tz database.
(GMT - 06:00) Central America Look for a couple of provinces in Mexico, and Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Chile-Easter Island, Ecuador-Galapagos. Please check the "southamerica" file.
(GMT - 03:00) Brasilia The central Brazil zones are at -03:00. Some observe summertime (DST), some not.
(GMT - 02:00) Mid-Atlantic Zone: Atlantic/South_Georgia is at -02:00; it's in the south however...
(GMT + 01:00) West Central Africa Among others, Central African Republic is at +01:00.
(GMT + 06:00) Sri Jayawardenepura Capital of Sri Lanka. See "asia" file.
(GMT + 13:00) Nuku¹alofa Capital of Tonga. See "australasia" file.
Also, is there any site where I can find documentation about this library? In the tzcode folder are a couple of documentation files. The most interesting are probably: README Theory zic.8.txt
Another interesting file is zone.tab to be found in the tzdata folder. Here you'll find e.g. country codes and latitude/longitude information. The "canonical" web site is: http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm Oscar van Vlijmen 2004-05-18
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