Re: [Tzdist] Next step

Ken Murchison <murch@andrew.cmu.edu> Mon, 19 October 2015 14:14 UTC

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On 10/19/2015 09:55 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> --On October 18, 2015 at 5:39:04 PM +0100 Daniel Migault 
> <daniel.migault@ericsson.com> wrote:
>
>>     OPTION 1: There is significant interest and energy to work on topics
>> in this area. In that case, we can think of re-chartering the WG. If you
>> see any work in this area, let it us know as soon as possible, so we can
>> define a new charter.
>
> A couple of possible follow-up work items:
>
> 1) Add a location->tzid mapping extension to the tzdist protocol. That 
> ought to be a relatively trivial extension to define if there is 
> interest.
>

Actually, would this be a mapping from something like "Pittsburgh, PA" 
-> "America/New_York", or from GPS coordinates to a tzid, or both?

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Principal Systems Software Engineer
Carnegie Mellon University