Re: [RFC] Add IntlTimeZone::getWindowsID() and IntlTimeZone::getIDForWindowsID() to ext/intl
| From: | Sara Golemon | Date: | Thu, 17 Mar 2016 01:02:58 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [RFC] Add IntlTimeZone::getWindowsID() and IntlTimeZone::getIDForWindowsID() to ext/intl | ||
| References: | 1 2 3 4 | Groups: | php.internals |
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On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote:
> If it works on Linux just fine, why is it called Windows? Is that really
> what the ICU spec says to call them, rather than something meaningful?
> (That would be sad making if so.)
>
Because there's no "spec" as such for the names that Windows uses for
Timezones, they're just "The names that windows uses", so in an effort
to give them a categorical name, they're called.... windows IDs.
And yes, that's what ICU calls them, e.g.
icu::TimeZone::getWindowsID() <--- That's an ICU API.
-Sara