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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 18:02:58 -0700
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To: Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Add IntlTimeZone::getWindowsID() and
 IntlTimeZone::getIDForWindowsID() to ext/intl
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

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