[Bug 18646] New: I18N-ISSUE-92: Provide support for IANA time zone IDs

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18646

           Summary: I18N-ISSUE-92: Provide support for IANA time zone IDs
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows NT
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec
        AssignedTo: erika.doyle@microsoft.com
        ReportedBy: addison@lab126.com
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: mike@w3.org, public-html-wg-issue-tracking@w3.org,
                    public-html@w3.org


The Internationalization WG would like HTML5 to add support for IANA time zones
IDs as located at: http://www.iana.org/time-zones 

This is per I18N-ACTION-142 which was in response to comments made in the I18N
teleconference:

   http://www.w3.org/2012/07/25-i18n-minutes.html#item06

We have previously requested that a note be added (see
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=16962), to wit:

Note: the zone offset is not a complete time zone specification. When working
with real date and time values, consider using a separate field for time zone,
perhaps using IANA time zone IDs.

and @reference our WG-Note "Working with Time Zones".

At this location:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/single-page.html#global-dates-and-times

(section 2.5.5.6)

But we feel that offsets are insufficient for many time-related operations and
would like support for TZIDs

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Received on Tuesday, 21 August 2012 18:49:59 UTC