Hi Brian, > jeffrey, when you've found that list, let me know where it is, cos i'll > need to construct cosmo's timezone collection from it :)
Looks like Bear beat me to answering your question. UNIX systems will have a zoneinfo database (also called tzfile, or the tz database, or the Olson database) somewhere, for windows you can download one from... Gosh, I'm not coming up with a link for a download very easily, there's a slightly outdated one at http://s.keim.free.fr/tz/doc.html. Bear's link lists various parsers for zoneinfo files. The issue Chandler has with "a list" for displaying to the user is discussed at http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/JeffreyHarris20041119. Basically, on Windows, do we use the Win32 timezone definitions (good, consistent human readable names for timezones, variable cross platform behavior), or a zoneinfo database (then it's unclear what human readable label to use for the local timezone, since Windows' label for local time won't uniquely match an entry in the zoneinfo database). For Cosmo I don't think you need to worry about the local timezone, so you should probably use a zoneinfo db. Sincerely, Jeffrey _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "Dev" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
