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Re: [Tzdist] [tzdist] #34 (service): should we include a raw tzdb format media type?

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Wed, 07 January 2015 23:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tzdist] [tzdist] #34 (service): should we include a raw tzdb format media type?
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tzdist issue tracker wrote:
> those files normally come over at
>   the level of a continent.  What would a query look like?

The tz binary format is specified per name, e.g., there's a separate file in tz 
binary format for 'America/Los_Angeles'.  This is the same as the VTIMEZONE 
format, so presumably a query would look just like the query for the VTIMEZONE 
format, except that it's ask for tz binary format instead of VTIMEZONE format.

I don't see how continents are involved with this, other than as strings that 
appear as part of the name strings.

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