Re: [Xmltv-devel] Timezones in XMLTV

[Ed A. <ed...@me...>]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Jared Krinke wrote:

>I came across this site when developing furious_tv and trying to
>figure out the named timezones:
>http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/datetime-keywords.html .

The xmltv programs use Perl's Date::Manip and the source of that
module would also be a good place to find named timezone definitions.  
But whatever source you pick, it won't cover all of them because some
timezone names (EST, BST) have different meanings across the globe.

Someone (don't remember who) pointed out this problem and I agreed to
use numeric timezones instead.  Over the past few xmltv releases most
of the grabbers have been changed to do this - though the project is
still ongoing, as is changing the grabbers to be independent of the
local machine's timezone.

For the next version of the xmltv format (look at
todo/xmltv-0.6.dtd) I have decided to get rid of timezones altogether
- all times will be stored in UTC.

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Ed Avis <ed...@me...>