Jason Cipriani wrote:
> Unfortunately, I can not check the actual tz database to compare it to
> Joda/boost. On that twinsun.com link, their mailing list seems to not
> work, their FTP site is down, and the HTTP mirror listed has nothing
> on it related to timezone databases. Very annoying!

ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/oldtz/ contains the data

> Anyways that means I can't tell if Joda added extra IDs from somewhere
> else, or if boost is missing them. In particular, all of the IDs
> without /'s are missing from boost (e.g. "EST5EDT", "UTC", "Poland"),
> as well as all IDs starting with "Brazil/", "Canada/", "Mexico/",
> "Chile/", "Etc/", and "US/", and a few others. Did Joda add these from
> some other database? Or is boost missing them?

The tzdb download contains multiple files. There are the main files with 
the modern IDs, and the older files with older IDs. Boost is choosing to 
omit the older IDs.

Stephen

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