On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org> wrote: > 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.
Great; thanks for the link to the data, and the info. That's what I was looking for! Jason ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Joda-interest mailing list Joda-interest@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/joda-interest
