On Mar 1, 2013, at 7:20 , Eric Albright wrote: > 2) These names are canonicalized to the corresponding Zone name in the casing > used in the IANA Time Zone Database. Etc/GMT and Etc/UTC are canonicalized to > UTC. (The subtle differences between GMT and UTC probably don't matter to > users of this API.) > > We'll need some clarity here as to what it means to canonicalize to UTC. > Presumably if you request UTC, Etc/GMT or Etc/UTC it is resolved as UTC. But > when you include the abbreviation in a time format which do you get, GMT or > UTC? It seems surprising to me that it would be GMT (but then, that's what > you would expect from v1 with only Etc/GMT aliasing to UTC). I would have > naively also expected a full name of Universal Coordinated Time.
That depends on which localized string the implementation uses. > We also should define the behavior for link names (do they resolve to the > linked zone or resolve to themselves). The spec draft is clearer on this than my email: http://norbertlindenberg.com/ecmascript/intl.html#sec-6.4.2 Norbert _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
