New Message: RFC: date.timeZoneToString

[David A. Bayly]

One solution is at <http://www.timezoneconverter.com/>

There must be a standard for this,   I tried iso without issue, 
google searches on timezone, international date line, international 
time zone.The last yielded

<http://sunland.gsfc.nasa.gov/info/tar/Timezone_item.html>

Nothing definitive there


At 17:57 +0000 01/10/30, webmaster at userland.com wrote:
>A new message was posted:
>
>Address: http://frontier.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$9049
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>By: Dave Winer (dave at userland.com)
>
>OK, it's time to write a verb that returns an English string for a timezone.
>
>It's fairly easy to write, and for the US and some parts of Europe, 
>I actually know what to return.
>
>But here's a vexing question -- what to call the timezones where the 
>does not appear to be a canonical name for the timezone.
>
>So I thought I'd ask for suggestions publicly, since we're a fairly 
>international group, I thought people might be able to help.
>
>***Docs
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>Here's the provisional DocServer page for the verb.
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>xxx
>
>***Code
>
>Here's the crucial bit of code.
>
>adrtable^.["-12"] = "Date Line"
>adrtable^.["-11"] = "Samoa"
>adrtable^.["-10"] = "Hawaii"
>adrtable^.["-9"] = "Alaska"
>adrtable^.["-8"] = "Pacific"
>adrtable^.["-7"] = "Mountain"
>adrtable^.["-6"] = "Central"
>adrtable^.["-5"] = "Eastern"
>adrtable^.["-4"] = "Atlantic"
>adrtable^.["-3.5"] = "Newfoundland"
>adrtable^.["-3"] = "Brasilia, Buenos Aires"
>adrtable^.["-2"] = "Mid-Atlantic"
>adrtable^.["-1"] = "Azores"
>adrtable^.["0"] = "Greenwich"
>adrtable^.["1"] = "Central Europe"
>adrtable^.["2"] = "Finland, Israel, South Africa"
>adrtable^.["3"] = "Russia-Saudi Arabia"
>adrtable^.["3.5"] = "Iran"
>adrtable^.["4"] = "Arabian Peninsula"
>adrtable^.["5"] = "West Asia"
>adrtable^.["5.5"] = "India"
>adrtable^.["6"] = "Central Asia"
>adrtable^.["7"] = "Bangkok-Hanoi-Jakarta"
>adrtable^.["8"] = "China-Western Australia"
>adrtable^.["9"] = "Korea, Japan"
>adrtable^.["9.5"] = "Central Australia"
>adrtable^.["10"] = "Eastern Australia"
>adrtable^.["11"] = "Central Pacific"
>adrtable^.["12"] = "Fiji-New Zealand"
>
>***Question
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>Do you know the name for any of the Asian and European time zones?
>
>Dave
>
>PS: Reminder to self: I've yet to account for Daylight Savings Time.
>
>This is a Manila site.. http://manila.userland.com/.


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