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Bug 18646 - I18N-ISSUE-92: Provide support for IANA time zone IDs
Summary: I18N-ISSUE-92: Provide support for IANA time zone IDs
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: This bug has no owner yet - up for the taking
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Reported: 2012-08-21 18:49 UTC by Addison Phillips
Modified: 2016-04-20 18:21 UTC (History)
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Description Addison Phillips 2012-08-21 18:49:56 UTC
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
Comment 1 Erika Doyle Navara 2012-10-03 21:20:30 UTC
Moving this to HTML.next as we work to lock down HTML5.0 for CR.
Comment 2 Robin Berjon 2013-01-21 15:58:52 UTC
Mass move to "HTML WG"
Comment 3 Robin Berjon 2013-01-21 16:01:38 UTC
Mass move to "HTML WG"
Comment 4 Arron Eicholz 2016-04-20 18:21:24 UTC
HTML5.1 Bugzilla Bug Triage: 

This bug constitutes a request for a new feature of HTML. Our current guidelines, rather than track such requests as bugs or issues, is to create a proposal for the desired behavior, or at least a sketch of what is wanted (much of which is probably contained in this bug), and start the discussion/proposal in the WICG (https://www.w3.org/community/wicg/). As your idea gains interest and momentum, it may be brought back into HTML through the Intent to Migrate process (https://wicg.github.io/admin/intent-to-migrate.html).