On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Danny Mayer<[email protected]> wrote: > Joe wrote: >> Timezone data is fairly dynamic. It makes sense to have some form of >> network service to update timezone data. Does anyone know if there >> have been any proposals about a standardized timezone update protocol, >> or reasons why there should not be one? Since NTP is well established, >> maybe it could be expanded to include timezone data?
The official IETF standard for Timezone data exchange is part of the iCalendar standards. However, there is not even a "universal list of timezones" in those standards; the timezone definitions are implementation-specific. There are tools that conver the UNIX-oriented Olsen tzdata files into iCalendar format, and others that convert the Windows timezone database into iCalendar format. But one size definitely does not fit all. This is not a problem NTP can solve. -- RPM _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
