3.10. TC TIMEZONE

We presented the current state of the timezone work. We have a draft (expired) at the IETF which represents the current state of the servers. This is ready for last call so we should progress it through the IETF. Additional work, which does not require spec changes, would be to add a new content type related to the current zoneinfo format. This may encourage OS vendors to use a timezone service. We talked about ways we might accelerate the dissemination of data. Some OS providers already track the data and provide system updates. If they use a timezone service maybe they could become a more timely source of data. We also talked about delivering timezones by reference, that is drop the timezone component from icalendar files and see what clients do. It appears they generally ignore the data anyway — as do servers. Aliases is another topic and we need to build up a good set of aliases that we can use in our servers. Unicode Consortium has a list that we can probably extract.