[OGo-Developer] Re: [OGo-Users] Updated Time zone info?

[John Ross]

<moved from the users list>

Well, I was too lazy to do it by hand, so I've put a script up to convert 
the zic(8) source files (A.K.A
OlsonDB) to the format used by libFoundation.

There are a few problems with it, mainly formating issues that I couldn't
quite figure out.

How do you specify a date such as:
         "First Sunday on or after the second (Sun>=2)"
         "last Sunday on or before the 25th (Sun<=25)"

How would libFoundation handle a date such as:
         "First Sunday after the 25th (Which may be in the next month)"

Is there any specific hierarchy within libFoundation/TimeZoneInfo/? Some 
countries (Such as the US and
Canada) have their own directory, while others are in directories named 
for the continents (such as
Europe, Africa and Asia)

Can I mess around with that as long as I map them properly in 
RegionsDictionary?

Cheers.

On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> > > > I'm just wondering if anyone has update time zone info for
libFoundation,
> > > > before I start updating things myself.
> > > I assume you mean change to correspond to the USA's 2005 Energy
> > > Protection act that slides the start and end of DST around?
> > That's the one I'm most concerned with,
>
> Same here;  I haven't seen an update for this.
>
> > but any other TZ updates would be
> > welcome as well. The time zone data seems to be a bit stale.
>
> Please provide a patch for the timezone files if you get to it before
> anyone else.

-- 
John Ross
Director, Pretzel Logic
John.Ross@Pretzel-Logic.ca	http://www.pretzel-logic.ca