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Re: [Tzdist] Next step

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Tue, 20 October 2015 01:00 UTC

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To: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>, Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@daboo.name>, Daniel Migault <daniel.migault@ericsson.com>, Time Zone Data Distribution Service <tzdist@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [Tzdist] Next step
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Eliot Lear wrote:
> On 10/19/15 3:55 PM, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
>> >
>> >2) In conjunction with the IANA tzdb folks, define a media type that
>> >describes the "zoneinfo" file format (either a direct binary
>> >representation or, say, a JSON representation of that) so that tzdist
>> >servers can directly provide the zoneinfo file data that many OS's use.
>> >
> So you are talking about/var/share/zoneinfo/..., etc?  In other words,
> tzfile.5 in the distribution?

That's my understanding of the proposal, yes. Basically, tzfile.5 on wheels. The 
format is already defined and is widely used; all that's needed is to RFC-ize 
it. (Yes, I know, "all" is sometimes a big word....)

Perhaps there's some call for JSON too, I don't know.

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