zoneinfo

How do I determine the system's Olson zoneinfo in JavaScript?

I'm interested in retrieving the current zoneinfo string ("America/Los Angeles", "Europe/London", etc.) that the user currently has set for their OS in JavaScript. I've found how to get the current offset in seconds, offsets at specific dates, and less exact time zones (PST, etc.) but not the Olson zoneinfo. Is this possible? ...

Is there anyway i can convert a "Australia/Melbourne" time zone into some .net base class library object?

Hi folks, I have some data from a 3rd party that includes some string Language property data. Some sample data retrieved looks like : "Australia/Melbourne" When i investigated that what the property data-type was based on, it's a Zone Info (tz database / Olson database). Wtf is that? i googled and here's the info.... ZoneInfo da...

Can I determine the ZoneInfo from an IPAddress?

Hi folks, is there anyway I could figure out an estimated (Olson) ZoneInfo value (eg. ("America/Los Angeles", "Europe/London", etc.), for a single public IP address ... in .NET? I already have a full list of ZoneInfo values, so that's not a problem ... and in a drop down box. I just want to default a selected value based on an IP. I ...

javazic timezone format

Where can I find documentation about the binary data format outputted by javazic (the files shipped in Debian's tzdata-java package)? The standard format used in /usr/share/zoneinfo has no explicit concept of daylight savings time versus standard time. It only knows about a timezone having different offsets from UTC at different times o...