Re: Time Zones: Was Re: Grand Unified Theory of Date/Time modules

[Abhijit Menon-Sen]

On 2001-05-06 11:15:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > Now is about 20010506T073000+0530 localtime [...]
> 
> Is this the fairly standard (or at least conventional) way to deal
> with [timezones]?

The "Z" or [+-]offset scheme I described is the ISO 8601 way to deal
with it. As far as I know, the conventional method to handle (named)
time zones is the Olson database <URL:ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/>.

Shane -- I don't know how to handle DST. RFC 2445 and ISO 8601 both
ignore it totally (which is the only sane thing to do :).

Ideas? How would you handle it today?

- ams