Re: Country specific add-on package

Helge Hess wrote:

> On Aug 26, 2004, at 0:46, Olivier Hallot wrote:
>
>>> No. Timezone names are not country specific, the timezone database 
>>> is managed by some organisation, don't remember the name.
>>
>> Disagree. the TZ logic inside OGo bears several names for the same 
>> time-shift as well as DST specific to countries. OK, OK, these 
>> specific data are a couple of lines in a one or two files files and 
>> can be added in the core.
>
>
> Nope. Timezones are (and need to be!) standardized. Eg the DST of CET 
> is the same regardless of the country, its specified for the timezone 
> abbreviation "CET", not for Germany or France (countries/states can 
> then choose what timezone they want to use).

There are 24 or so time zones. All of them have a standard name. These 
names are already in place in libfoundation. All of them MUST be there 
for a proper OGo operation as you point.

But OGo/libfoundation is flexible enough to allow GMT-3 be named as  
"GMT-03:00", Rio, Brasilia, Greenland, "Mom's TZ". User can choose one 
of these names inside OGo and he/she will be in GMT-3. See, you *can* 
add a new name for MET such as Madgebourg. The webUI will show 
Madgebourg as timezone and that will be MET time.

libfoundation is so good that you can also define "Madgebourg" and 
"Madgebourg DST" in synch with MET and MET DST. No apointment missed.

(Now what is not standadized at all is DST dates. Some countries have 
them defined by astronomical rules and others no. Brazil, for example 
has the DST defined by gov decree. Here we dont' know yet if or when DST 
will begin in 2004, supposedly some sunday in October.)

>
> Eg libFoundation needs to have Rio timezone info even if I'm running 
> the server in Germany because it won't be able to translate your Rio 
> event dates into my local timezone.
>
yes.

> regards,
>   Helge

Olivier
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